Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 19: Team Jammu today reiterated the need of immediately stopping cross-LoC trade to keep a check on narco-terrorism, which is consuming lives of the youth of the State, irrespective of caste, creed, colour, region and religion.
“Directions given by the Governor to go tough on smuggling of banned items and narcotics through cross-LoC trade and to urgently undertake complete verification of all traders engaged in this trade within one month for deregistering those with doubtful antecedents has vindicated Team Jammu’s stand that narcotics and other banned drugs are smuggled from across the border through cross-LoC trade”, Chairman of the Team Jammu, Zorawar Singh Jamwal said while addressing a press conference, here today.
“It is now an open secret that international drug lords and anti-national elements have taken control of the cross-LoC trade but successive State Governments had intentionally allowed continuation of this illegal business through cross border trading routes due to vote bank politics”, he regretted but hailed Governor N N Vohra for taking personal interest in checking the on-going misdeeds through cross-LoC trade.
Zorawar said that narco-terrorism was more dangerous than terrorism but by the so-called peoples’ Governments in J&K had allowed this menace flourish in the State. He also reminded NIA has already registered an FIR and was investigating routing of hawala money through the cross-LoC trade routes for funding terrorism and stone pelting in the Kashmir Valley.
Reiterating his demand of scanning credentials of some traders and self-proclaimed peace activists of J&K being involved in ‘flourishing’ the cross-LoC trade, Team Jammu chairman said that it was really surprising that meetings to discuss this trade were s being held in big cities outside the country like Singapore, Thialand, Washington, Dubai etc. “We have apprehensions that such meetings are usually organized by international drug lords for entertainment of self-proclaimed peace activists and so-called traders whose names have been used by the international drug mafia to ensure smooth flow of their consignments from the across the border to every nook and corner of India” he said and urged the Governor to direct police and other intelligence agencies to take note of such meetings held outside the country.
Rajesh Kapoor, Chandan Datta, Sardar Jaswinder Singh. Gowhar Farooq and others were also present in the press conference.
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