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Need for counter insurgency operations in Kashmir 9/14/2015 10:27:09 PM If inputs from intelligence agencies are any guide more and more educated youth in the Kashmir valley have started joining militant outfit,Hizbul Mujahideen, which is considered an outfit with majority of local youth.This is a source of worry for the security agencies and the state and the central Governments when militancy related incidents of violence have declined considerably in the valley and have nose dived in the region of Jammu.There are fears that once the fresh recruits have completed their arms training they may raise the level of violence which could further derail peace in the state.If during the last about one year the region of Jammu has remained peaceful, the level of serenity in the region could be adversely affected once the level of violence went up in the Kashmir valley.Well indications are that the local youths who have joined Hizbul Mujahideen outfit have done so out of their grievances against the state and the central Governments failure in providing them jobs in the state and elsewhere.In fact growing poverty seems to have forced them to embrace militancy as each one of them have been assured of receiving cash incentives each month. In the recent months the valley of Kashmir has witnessed a shift in the nature of militancy which has,according to intelligence inputs,forced the dreaded Lashkar-i-Toiba to lose its supremacy in the valley. Reports said that educated youths in Kashmir nurse fears about joining Lashkar-i-Toiba which has clear domination of militants from Pakistan. These educated boys in Kashmir have opted for the indigenous Hizbul Mujahideen, with almost all members from Kashmir, allowing it to become number one militant group.Many see it as a warning to policymakers in both New Delhi and Srinagar to wake up to the new tide of local youths joining militancy, and the dramatic indigenisation of militant violence, which since the late 1990s was dominated by LeT. The shift also means that the attacks are getting milder, and suicide raids are no more routine.About 200 active militants are operating in the State. Of them, over 80 are in Hizbul Mujahideen, officials say. In the most dependable estimates available from J&K police and other sources, LeT has about 60 members, of which 40 are believed to be Pakistanis. Many other militant groups have altogether vanished or are on the fringe. As far as security agencies are concerned and as far as the nature of counter insurgency operations are concerned security forces need not study and examine the impact of militant outfits having majority of activists from Kashmir or from across the LOC.So far the issue of derailing peace that can be done by outfits with activists from Kashmir or by the outfit with activists from across the border.Hence the Government is supposed to halt the trend of educated boys joining militant outfits. And the task of the security forces is to upgrade and strengthen the security grid within the state and on the LOC and the IB.As far as the Government is concerned it has to seek help from the centre for increasing job avenues within the state and for enhancing reservations for the educated youth from Jammu and Kashmir in the Armed Forces and in the central paramilitary forces.The centre could suggest to the public sector corporations in rest of the country to have five to seven per cent quota for educated boys from Jammu and Kashmir so that educated boys were not lured militant groups.And there was need for launching massive and multidimensional counter insurgency operations in order to arrest or eliminate those militants who are active in the state. Once it is done there would be no encounters between the militants and the security force.In addition to this the LOC and the IB border management has to be upgraded to check ingress of militants and once success is achieved it may generate peace needed for development.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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