Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s wish to see withdrawal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from the state and inclusion of the Indo-Nepal border as one of the official routes under the rehabilitation policy for Kashmiri militants may take some more time.
At a high-level security review meeting, the Army and other security agencies put forth their views on the AFSPA and Nepal route before a team of union secretaries led by Cabinet Secretary Ajit Kumar Seth at the closed-door meeting that took place at Canal Road guest house here today.
A team of union secretaries led by Seth today reviewed the security scenario in the militancy plagued state and discussed the operational preparedness of security forces to maintain internal and external security besides taking stock of the summer strategy vis-à-vis spurt in terror attacks in Kashmir last month that resulted in the killings of five CRPF personnel, a border guard and two IRP jawans, he said.
The meeting chaired by Seth was attended by Defence Secretary Shashi Kant Sharma, Secretary Coordination, Cabinet Secretariat, Alok Rawat, Secretary, Planning Commission Sindhushree Khullar, Additional Secretary, Home K. Skandan and Joint Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat Subash Chandra Garg.
“The Army and other security agencies expressed concern over illegal entry of Kashmiri ultras via Nepal and felt that a proper mechanism be evolved at the earliest. Issues like de-briefing of Kashmiri ultras at the border the moment they enter India from Nepal and deployment of spotters from the state police also figured in the meeting,” he added.
The UP government is known to have opposed the deployment of Jammu and Kashmir Police on its borders with Nepal.
Sources said the security forces, including the Army, also apprised the central team about the possible ramifications if the AFSPA was tampered with in the backdrop of impending pull out of the US-led NATO forces from Afghanistan next year and number of militants on other side of the LoC.
According to a latest US military report, a staggering 94 per cent of fresh recruits of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) see Jammu and Kashmir as a “fighting front” and hail mostly from Pakistan's Punjab province.
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