{"id":307738,"date":"2019-01-03T13:08:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T13:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307738"},"modified":"2019-01-03T13:34:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T13:34:25","slug":"220-militants-active-in-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/220-militants-active-in-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;220  militants active  in Valley&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-305799 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/militant.1jpg-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/militant.1jpg-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/militant.1jpg.jpg 651w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Even though\u00a0 257 militants were killed in 2018, the number of active militants in Valley is about 220, around 60 of them foreigners, according to a report in a local\u00a0 Kashmir daily Greater Kashmir. This has effectively brought the situation back to square one in the state.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Since 2015 killing of the popular commander Burhan Wani, the militancy in the Valley has grown from strength. The killings of the militants have witnessed faster replenishment.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In 2017, the security forces killed 218 militants. But the number of the militants remained unchanged by the year end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Security agencies are now hoping that the increased killings of militants lead to reduced fresh recruitment of the local youth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;There is a silver lining. Since September last a smaller number of the local youth have joined militancy,&#8221; said a police officer. &#8220;We hope the trend continues&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Security officials hope that at the current rate of killings in the next few months will see a substantial reduction in the militant number which in turn will make a redeeming difference to the security situation in the state.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe hope to maintain the pressure and reduce the presence of militants by a sizable number,\u201d said a police officer. \u201cThis should\u00a0 ease up the current fragile situation and hopefully put the Valley on the road to peace sooner than later\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though\u00a0 257 militants were killed in 2018, the number of active militants in Valley is about 220, around 60 of them foreigners, according to a report in a local\u00a0 Kashmir daily Greater Kashmir. This has effectively brought the situation back to square one in the state.\u00a0\u00a0 Since 2015 killing of the popular commander Burhan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[1141,2017],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307738"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307742,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307738\/revisions\/307742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}