Kashmir is witnessing two main adjustments in militancy sample: Jammu and Kashmir Police has emerged because the prime goal and the primary part of assaults has shifted from south Kashmir to Srinagar metropolis prior to now few months, senior officers informed The Indian Express. Told.
Official figures for 2021 present that for the primary time in a 12 months, the variety of police personnel killed by terrorists has exceeded the collective toll of different safety personnel focused within the Valley: 19 of the 27 killed.
Of the 40 safety personnel killed in Jammu and Kashmir this 12 months, 20 belong to the police. In 2019, out of 83 safety personnel killed in Jammu and Kashmir, 11 belonged to the police. And in 2020, out of 60 safety forces killed by terrorists in J&Ok, 16 have been police personnel.
“There is a visible change in the terrorist strategy,” a police officer mentioned. “Earlier, they (terrorists) used to frequently warn police of dire penalties however prevented focusing on police personnel resulting from social strain on the native degree. But that’s altering now.”
Another senior official blamed the drive’s “lack of initiative” for the escalating assaults. “The Army and the CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) have taken a number of steps to stop terrorist assaults and have efficiently averted them. The police, nonetheless, lack such initiative and have change into a simple goal for terrorists.
Referring to Monday’s assault on a police bus in Srinagar, the officer mentioned: “It could have been avoided if the police had taken all the usual precautions taken by other forces. For example, even in case of such an attack, the casualties could have been minimized if the police personnel were traveling in a bulletproof bus.”
Another main concern for the safety system is the militancy within the Valley.
After shifting from South to North Kashmir and again all these years, the terrorists are actually concentrating on the town of Srinagar. Police sources say that this technique was devised by the slain terrorist commander Abas Sheikh of The Resistance Force (TRF). They say that Sheikh, who was killed in an encounter in Srinagar in August, “made every effort to revive militancy in the city and set up several sleeper cells before his death”.
“He (Abas Sheikh) made it a game of intelligence and nerves. He focused on the optics, to send out the message that the capital city is not out of reach of terrorists,” mentioned a senior official. “There appears to be a aware effort on the a part of the militants to get into the limelight. There is not any higher place for that than Srinagar. Also, Srinagar is an enormous metropolis, which makes it straightforward for terrorists to cover.”
This change is fast because the police declared Srinagar a terrorism-free district within the autumn of 2020. But within the final three months alone, it has witnessed at the very least 9 encounters by which 15 terrorists have been killed.
In early October, two civilians have been killed by terrorists in Srinagar, following which three native residents of minority communities and two migrant road distributors have been killed in a number of assaults.
According to police sources, numerous terrorists are situated in Srinagar, however folks from South Kashmir additionally enter the town to hold out assaults. “The terrorists who attacked the police bus in Jewan on Monday had come from south Kashmir and had gone back after the attack,” sources mentioned.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
