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Kashmir : Militants going through a rough patch |
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There are reports that militants in the Kashmir valley are going through a rough patch as they are facing shortage of manpower, money, weapons and ammunition. The depleting arsenal has led to the militant outfits sending a flurry of messages to their mentors across the border. BSF DIG K. Srinivasan said in Srinagar that the militants are in a very desperate situation. The growing desperation has increased the possibility of fresh efforts to rush supplies ; infiltrators have collected along the border and the Line of Control waiting to sneak in.
Security agencies explain the dwindling ammo stocks with jehadis in the light of the deterrents recently introduced on the border. “With the three-tier fencing on the border that has thermal sensors, pushing people is not so easy now, hence the crisis,” Srinivasan added. As a result, LeT ranks are shrinking fast as the fresh units have not been able to arrive.
Meanwhile, in a related development, Jammuites have demanded abrogation of the Resettlement Act. This comes after Farida Ghani, a Pakistani passenger on board the first Srinagar-Muzaffarabad peace bus, reclaiming three ancestral properties that her father had left in the Kashmir valley in 1949. Chief Minister Mufti Mohd. Sayeed had earlier claimed that opening up of road links between the two neighbouring countries will not affect occupants of evacuee properties and had tried his level best to dispel certain apprehensions in this regard.
Now when Farida Ghani has moved her formal application, loud voices of dissent demanding abrogation of the controversial Resettlement Act enacted by the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly in 1982 is gaining momentum.
On the other hand, compulsions of regional politics and fear of losing out on their traditional vote banks have already brought both the Congress and the BJP on the same platform after almost two decades in the Jammu region.
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