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| India not to lower guard despite Poonch agreement | | | Though Pakistan has agreed to main
tain peace on the LoC in Jammu and
Kashmir, it would be a blunder if India lowers its guard not only on the LoC but on the IB also. Over the years there have been a series of flag meetings, whether between the two Army commanders or between the BSF functionaries, where Pakistan agrees on honouring ceasefire agreement on the LoC and on the IB in Jammu and Kashmir. But it has been experienced over the years that Pakistani troops or the Rangers violate ceasefire which is in addition to violation of the agreements reached at the flag meetings between the two sides. The latest instance is ceasefire violations having been committed by the Pakistani troops on the LoC even after the two sides, during a meeting between the DG Rangers and the DG BSF, had agreed to honour ceasefire agreement on the IB in Jammu sector. Rangers is not a different security agency and it is part of the forces that have been raised by Pakistan and as such the Pakistan Army should have too honoured the agreement reached between the BSF and the Rangers. This was not done. What is then the guarantee about Pakistan honouring the commitment it made during the flag meeting in Poonch.
India and Pakistan has agreed to de-escalate tension on the Line of Control as its armies held a Brigade Commander-level flag meeting at Chakan-da-Bagh on the LoC in Poonch district. The last such meeting was held at the same place on January 17, 2014. That Pakistan may have been forced to accept India's initiative for a flag meeting indicates that the Army in Pakistan may have come under pressure from stiff and strong retaliation by the Indian Army jawans. Reports do indicate that following repeated ceasefire violations by the Pakistan Army and the Rangers on the LoC and on the IB the Indian troops, guarding the LoC,and the BSF, deployed on the IB were directed to retaliate with force and fury each and every ceasefire violation. Reports had revealed that the Pakistani delegation again attributed the trans-border firing from their side to non-state actors (ultras), the Indian delegation clearly refused to buy their plea and asked them to check such elements as well as infiltration bids from their side. The Indian Army had taken the initiative for the flag meeting in order to restore normalcy on the LoC and in the larger interest of peace for the border population on both sides.
During the last several months senior Army functionaries and the Union Home Ministry had okayed the plan of deploying additional columns of the Army on the LoC and additional companies of the BSF on the IB in Jammu and Kashmir. This step had been taken to foil infiltration bids by militants who were being assisted by the Pak Army and the Rangers in crossing into Jammu and Kashmir. In fact repeated ceasefire violations were aimed at craving out a passage for militants for sneaking into Jammu and Kashmir. The result was that during the last six months or so Pakistani troops and the Rangers had failed in helping groups of militants in crossing into Jammu and Kashmir. Yes, some militants had crossed into Jammu and Kashmir in two’s and three’s. In addition to this both the Army and the BSF had been equipped with highly sophisticated weapons and gadgets in order to carry out furious retaliation and in a bid to monitor movement of militants across the border. It would be a mistake on the part of the top functionaries of the Army and the BSF if additional forces that had been deployed on the LoC and the IB were withdrawn or added gadgets installed on the border for monitoring the movement of militants were sent back to the Army headquarters. In fact there is need for upgrading the security grid and the border management in order to foil any mischief by Pak troops and the Rangers. |
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