Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 23: Accusing Pakistan’s ISI of pumping narcotics in J&K through LoC trade routes, Team Jammu Chairman Zorawar Singh Jamwal today demanded immediate stopping of trans-LoC trade at Chakkan-Da- Bagh and Uri trade centres.
“These LoC trade routes have become terror funding and drug trafficking routes to spread death and destruction in the whole country in general and J&K in particular by Pakistan’s notorious ISI agency to accomplish their nefarious designs,” he said while addressing a press conference, here today.
Taking serious note of recovery of 66.5 kilogramme of narcotics, including heroin worth over Rs 300 crore from a truck, which had come to Uri Trade Centre from PoK on last Friday, Zorawar Singh observed that cross LoC trade had become main source of funding terrorism in J&K through Hawala trade and importing narco-terrorism in this State.
“We have been repeatedly cautioning State Government that anti-India forces are active to smuggle narcotic in the country through LoC to encourage narco-terrorism and LoC is being used by the international drug mafia to flow deadly drugs into Indian States including J&K,” he said and reminded that two years back a big consignment of narcotics, including 305 packets of brown sugar worth several crores of rupees from a PoK truck was seized at the same trade centre of Uri. Besides, he further said, a couple of weeks ago heroin worth two crores was recovered by Indian Army from Mendhar sector of Poonch district.
Appreciating the alert police team that detected big contraband in the disguise of mercantile goods at Uri, Team Jammu chairman also reminded that big crackdown was conducted by Rajouri Police a couple of months back on drug peddlers during which at least 23 drug peddlers were detained and booked under PSA. “There is need to conduct similar crack downs in other districts of Jammu province to break the back-bone of drug mafia”, he demanded.
Demanding immediate stopping of these so-called trade centres at Chakan-da-Bagh in Poonch and Kaman Post at Uri sector in Kashmir valley, Zorawar Singh mentioned that the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has also suggested to stop the cross LoC trade links, which have been used by some forces in Valley to accomplish their dangerous game plans.
“What more evidences do the Union and State Governments require to stop trans-LoC trade from these centres?” Zorawar asked and cautioned that any delay in abolishing these trade centre would prove dangerous and disastrous for the countrymen and younger generation.
Advocate Alisha Kohli, Gohar Farooq, Rajesh Kapoor, Er Chandan Datta, Sunil Singh Raipuria, Abhijeet Singh and Shivam Mahajan of Team Jammu, were also present in the press conference.
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