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| Elements on either side of LoC active in sabotaging bilateral dialogue | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 15: Recent events in Jammu and Kashmir have started assuming ominous dimensions which may even force Delhi to block the channels of dialogue which had been reopened after a gap of over 15 months with the meeting between the foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan in New Delhi on February 25. The moment India and Pakistan agreed to have another round of talks between the two Foreign Ministers on July 15 which was to be preceded by the visit of Indian Home Minister, P.C. Chidambaram, and the Indian Foreign secretary, Nirupama Rao, to Islamabad elements within Jammu and Kashmir and agencies across the LOC have stepped up their activities which have the potential of building fresh tension between Delhi and Islamabad.
Not only the separatists but the militants too have become active. As people have been incited to indulge in stone pelting and to raise pro-freedom and anti-Government slogans militants have devised a way of adding to the difficulties of the state administration. One such incident was witnessed on Friday when militants hurled a grenade near a security picket and fired a pistol shot in the interior of Srinagar city. In the grenade attack six people, including four security personnel, were injured. Militants were encouraged to launch a grenade attack at a time when the security forces were engaged in tackling the menace of stone pelting.
Reports said that the separatists have framed a programme under which they would engage the youth in indulging in stone pelting on the security forces so that in some retaliatory measures the security personnel could be held guilty of human rights violations. According to these reports two sets of forces were working in Kashmir these days. One set of elements was trying to kick up violence which could force Delhi to suspend the proposed Foreign Ministry level talks. The other set of forces are trying to destabilise peace which may force Delhi to keep the proposed talks Kashmir centric. These reports said that those elements which were opposed to the resumption of the composite dialogue between India and Pakistan received assistance from agencies across the LOC. Even official agencies in Pakistan, including a section of the Army and the ISI, have been opposed to the resumption of the bilateral dialogue and hence were trying to provide all possible moral, material and diplomatic support to the Kashmiri separatists and to the militants who were being pushed into Jammu and Kashmir. It is in this context that the level of infiltration has gone up during the last three weeks. And infiltrators with the help of Pakistani soldiers have started damaging the border fence with grenade and IED explosions so as to pave the way for ingress into Jammu and Kashmir. Thursday's incident in Abdullian village in R.S.Pura, in which a portion of the border fence was damaged for carving out safe passage for the infiltrators, clearly indicated that Pakistani troops have been lending all possible assistance to the militants in sneaking into Jammu and Kashmir. It was the result of the retaliatory measures taken by the BSF that foiled a major infiltration bid. Attempts are afoot, at various stages, to destabilise peace in Kashmir which may have an adverse impact on the India-Pakistan relations. Both Delhi and Islamabad have realized the importance of cordial ties and it is because of this that the channels of dialogue have been reopened. This leaves one alternative for Delhi and Islamabad if the two sides want the talks to continue the two should join hands in defeating the forces that try to sabotage the process of dialogue.
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