Spurt in infiltration bids

Snow has melted on the passes and 300-400 armed jihadis waiting along the LoC on PoK side are moving in small groups of five to ten at a time to find safe infiltration gaps. Their attempt is to remain hidden from the sight of our vigilant border security forces. Most of their attempts are foiled but as the border is too long, and at several places the forests are dense, some of the infiltrators do succeed in sneaking in. In recent months, there has been a spurt in their infiltration bids. Apart from the melting of snow, the internal politics of Pakistan is also prompting the jihadis to make repeated bids of infiltration.
A new Government has been democratically formed in Pakistan. Its leadership had met with debacle on Kargil war issue. As such the new ruling party leadership understands that the path to any lasting solution to Kashmir is not through the barrel of the gun but through bilateral dialogue. This message has not gone well with the Pakistani Army and its spy wing ISI. For quite some time, Pakistan Army and it affiliates are under severe pressure of remaining confined to constitutionally stated duties and not interfere in civil administration. For the army, keeping the Kashmir pot simmering is the only way of maintaining its power and status as the ultimate deciding force in that country. Since open war with India is not the option, the Army-ISI combine is trying to keep the Kashmir pot burning. Hence we have repeated bids for infiltration.
Again, the border district of Kupwara in North Kashmir, which has several passes leading to PoK, has been chosen by the jihadis for infiltration and subversion. The entire area of Tangdhar, Machhil, Keran, Gurez as well as Hafrood and Mankal forests in Handwara border area have become active with the movement of jihadi infiltrators. They have contacts and conduits on this side of the line with who they are in liaison, as they need the guides to help them to build hideouts and also to know the routes of movement. Thus we find that after detecting the movement of armed jihadis in the dense forests in the above stated areas, our security forces have come into action. During past one month, two dozen infiltrators have been killed and a number of infiltration bids foiled.
Some dead bodies of the jihadis have been recovered and they are all foreigners as the documents recovered from their bodies show. Security forces and State police deployed on counter-insurgency duty have revealed that the slain or escaping militants are drawn from the main terrorist organizations of Pakistan namely Lashkar-e-Toiba, Jaish-e-Muhammad and Hizbu’l-Mujahideen. Obviously, in their renewed bids, the ringmasters of these terrorist groups have forged a unity of sorts and are operating under a duly considered plan. They have focused on a region for infiltration, which is called the hinterland of Sopore, the strategic town, where militants have made a strong base from the early days of insurgency. It has to be noted that in recent past, security forces have mounted clean up operation in Sopore area after they found that the terrorists once again wanted to have a build up in the town and its peripheries.
Our gallant defenders of the border all along the LoC have foiled all attempts of the infiltrators in the past. They are now far better equipped to meet this challenge. The Army has also upgraded counter-militancy operations and border security tactics. The Army has pinned down the suicidal jihads to their positions beyond the LoC. And those who succeed in sneaking in, are challenged much before they could reach their destinations on our side of the LoC. At the same time, the Army and security forces are maintaining a strict vigil of the border especially of more vulnerable spots along it. The message to the infiltrators and their masters is that do what they may, they are bound to face defeat and humiliation on every front. Our security forces have created and maintained a formidable intelligence network to monitor and identify the infiltrators before they are able to reach their destination.

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