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J&K-bound terrorists are trained in use of

J&K-bound terrorists are trained in use of napalm

Author: B L Kak
Publication: www.dailyexcelsior.com
Date: July 14, 2000

NEW DELHI, July 13: The authorities have just received a highly sensational report about the on-going exercise at Peshawar in Pakistan aimed at imparting training to groups of Kashmir-bound terrorists in use of napalm.

Equally sensational is the report, which suggests the "possibility" of some battle-hardened jehadis making use of shoulder-held missiles or anti-aircraft guns against Indian helicopters in Jammu and Kashmir.

Pakistan was reported to have informed Washington last month about measures to "wind up" an unspecified number of training camps for militants and terrorists.  In fact, one report specifically talked about the shifting of at least 15 such centres from Pakistan to Afghanistan.

But India's Military Intelligence (MI) has reportedly gathered evidence with regard to the setting up of more training camps across the Line of Control (LoC) in J&K, particularly in the Lipa Valley.  Pakistan-occupied Lipa Valley has already been converted into a big military formation.

The MI as well as the counter-intelligence wing of the J&K CID have evidence to suggest that there is "no sign" of the training camps in Pakistan being closed down or pushed back from the Line of Control.  At least 20 new camps are reported to have been established across the J&K border.  Lipa Valley alone accounts for more than a dozen training camps.

Another area of tremendous importance for the ruling establishment in Islamabad is infiltration of armed militants, mercenaries and subversives into Jammu and Kashmir.  The Pak military establishment is keen on continuing its support to the jehadis in Kashmir.  If there was any doubt about it, it was set at rest by the military ruler himself.

Gen Parvez Musharraf has, once again, defended groups such as the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen.  The New York Times Magazine has quoted him as having said in an interview: "These people are not terrorists, they are fighting a jehad.  There is no question that terrorism and jehad are absolutely different.  You in the West are allergic to the term jehad but jehad is a tolerant concept".

Gen Musharraf, despite the warning from the US Under Secretary of State, Mr Thomas Pickering, has chosen to be lenient towards Masood Azhar, the cleric released from the Jammu jail in the IC 814 hostages-for-prisoners swap, even after the latter's meetings in Afghanistan with Osama bin Laden and Taliban chief, Mullah Omar.  The cat was out of the bag when Pakistani magazine Newsline reported last month that Masood Azhar met Osama and Mullah Omar to secure their continued support in the Kashmir issue as well as their backing for his anti-India outfit, known as Jaish-e-Mohammadi.

Meanwhile, according to estimates of J&K State intelligence, Military Intelligence and Intelligence Bureau (IB), infiltration from across the LoC and International Border in Jammu and Kashmir has declined in the first five months during the current year.  During this period, not more than 430 terrorists entered J&K.  The figure during the first five months of 1999 was 824.

Tactical decisions by Indian authorities in close collaboration with the Farooq Abdullah Government, some officials point out, has led to the decline in trans-border infiltration.  EXCELSIOR was officially told that there had been a sharp decrease within Kashmir valley.  This phenomenon was attributed to the deployment of two additional brigades in counter-infiltration positions along the LoC.

The Army Headquarters has praised the role of 16 Corps, headquartered at Udhampur.  It is officially reckoned that troops under the command of this Corps have done well, along with paramilitary personnel and Special Operation Groups of J&K Police, while dealing with Pakistan-aided ultras.  As many as 276 terrorists have been killed in Jammu.  The 16 Corps has plans to thrust deep to knock out terrorists in the inaccessible and forest areas of the Jammu division.
 


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