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Omens nOt gOOd fOr Again, according to SATP, the J&K DGP SP Vaid told a
top stories from the magazine there have been 120 ceasefire national television channel
violations along the LoC and
that the global Jihadi group
Kashmir this year tOO the IB in January and Febru- did operate in the Valley,
Chief SeCretary-aaP ‘have you ever Seen ary, leading to the killing of the ministry of home affairs
11 security personnel and ten
promptly issued a denial.
MLaS’ SPat iS nothing inDuStriaLiStS The lingering violence, local recruitment civilians on the Indian side. Later, the DGP also went back
Short of a bizarre CoMMitting SuiCiDe in accompanied by infiltration, recurrent border Going forward, there is little on his statement.
Power gaMe inDia?’ flare-ups as well as unrest among citizens point hope that things will improve. However, whatever be
Only recently, the AAP In a tete-a-tete with Internally, the militancy is the reality of the ISIS or Al
completed three years Manmohan Singh Naula to a deteriorating security scenario and a possibly showing no signs of abating Qaeda’s presence in Kashmir,
the truth is that the situation
anytime soon. According to a
of power in Delhi which and Jawed Khurshid, violent summer in J&K, RIYAZ WANI writes recent security estimate, the in the state is going through
could be described as Gandhian Anna Hazare number of active militants in accelerating deterioration.
survival by fire, opines spoke at length on the Valley is 229, more or less The lingering violence in the
Charanjit Ahuja farmers’ plight, corruption same as in the beginning of state is the latest reminder
and declining political 2017. This despite the fact that to the effect. The scenario for
morality. 218 militants were killed in
counter-insurgency opera- There were 120
tions during the last year.
So, there is little that has truce violations
changed on the militancy
raM rajya rath yatra: ‘not SCareD of fir aS i front. The number of the mili- along LoC and IB
returning to raM for DiD nothing wrong’ tants the security forces were in the first two
2019 In the news across up against in 2017 is also the
The ongoing inter-state the world for her number they are up against in months of this
road trip organised investigative story on 2018, killings notwithstand- year, leading to
by the RSS-affiliated UIDAI security breach ing. What is more, if in 2016 several deaths
security forces were fighting
VHP is clearly aimed at and Aadhar data leak, just two militant organiza-
polarising the masses Rachna Khaira has tions — Hizbul Mujahideen on Indian side
to make electoral gains already become a trend- and Lashkar-e-Taiba — now
as well as normalise the setter and a source of they are fighting six of them.
Hindutva ideology, writes motivation for others, ccording to the • Peace in pieces There has been The Valley has witnessed sur- the year ahead is thus very
Anil Sinha. writes Raju William. South Asia Ter- no let up in the troubled security facing of the outfits like Jaish- bleak. Local recruitment
rorism Portal situation in Kashmir e-Mohammad, Al Qaeda, complemented by infiltration
(SATP), around Harkat-ul-Mujahideen and is likely to ensure a violent
A 45 people have Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen. That summer. At the same time, the
died in Kashmir until the first expanding arc of the conflict, is, if we discount ISIS’ claim of recurrent border flare-ups
MenStruaL hygiene: DeCoDing the Pnb week of March this year — 23 the recurrent exchange of fir- having set its foot in Kashmir. will keep alive the possibility
StiLL Shy to taLk reD frauD: tiMe to fix the of them militants, 15 security ing along the Line of Control ISIS has so far owned two of a bigger conflict between
(LoC) and the International
personnel and seven civil-
the neighbours. “If anything,
attacks in the Valley: one, the
in inDia rot in the banking ians. As is self-evident, despite Border (IB) in Jammu has now killing in February of a police this state of affairs underlines
Menstruation has SySteM the claims to the contrary, spread out to the border in man guarding the residence the futility of the muscular
been a tricky subject What really happened there has been no let up in the Kashmir. In the recent past, of senior Hurriyat leader approach adopted by New
in India where people in the PNB scam? troubled security situation in the LoC along Hajipeer and Fazal Haque Qureshi. And Delhi in Kashmir,” says Naseer
across states have Here is the genesis, the state. Nor is there a reason Uri in North Kashmir has another of an SHO who was Ahmad, a local columnist.
viewed it with disgust. the crux and modus to foresee a degree of stability flared up, leading to migra- killed in November in a shoot- “And if anything, the rising
out at Zakura on the outskirts
tion of the border residents
violence in Kashmir and on
in the near term.
Pari Sakia explores operandi of the scam What is more, a growing to safer areas. This is the first of Srinagar. the borders emphasizes the
how education can for the understanding challenge of the militancy in time after the 2003 ceasefire On both the occasions, the importance of dialogue and
break the taboos of common citizens, the state has been comple- agreement that the ceasefire J&K Police denied the exist- engagement between India
around periods. describes Kiran Suri mented by the worsening violations have returned to ence of the group in the state. and Pakistan.”
situation on the borders. In a the border in Kashmir with And when, following the lat-
development that shows an such frequency and ferocity. est ISIS claim of responsibility, letters@tehelka.com
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