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Pakistan's Support To Terrorism
For the last about five years Pakistan has been waging a low intensity proxy war in Jammu and Kashmir. Backed by official support from Pakistan there has been a well-organized and consistent Pakistani plan to subvert the authority of the Jammu and Kashmir Government, create chaos inspire terrorism, fan the flames of disruption and secessionism, subvert the loyalties of the people, kill and kidnap, organize murders and mayhem, whip up communal passions, raise the cry of jehad and open the floodgates of Islamic fundamentalism with international linkages. A number of Jehad Conferences, rallies and demonstrations have been held in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir to express solidarity with the Kashmir terrorists.
The plans are hatched in Pakistan and executed through Pakistani agents provocateur and such Kashmiri young men who have been lured, bribed, trapped or coerced, motivated or misguided into becoming militants. Pakistan Army Rangers and the Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) with its field units have been conducting and directing the programs of subversion. Pakistan has been training and arming the militants, providing funds, affording refuge and safe havens to the militants, as also setting up rapid communication systems. Backing the militants is a well orchestrated multi-media propaganda campaign with twin objectives: beamed to the militants in the Kashmir Valley the purpose is to stoke the fires of militancy and keep secessionism alive; in the international arena the intention is to damage the image of India.
Kashmiri youth are taken surreptitiously across the line of control to Pakistan occupied Kashmir and to Pakistan. There they are trained for subversion, equipped with weapons as also indoctrinated. Thereafter, they are infiltrated back into Jammu and Kashmir. The Pakistan Army often provides covering fire for such infiltrators across the line of control. Before the newly-recruited militants are sent to POK or Pakistan they are given code names to conceal their identity or they are provided with fake identity cards to cover them up as government employees. They are usually picked up in small batches from predetermined places and escorted to the line of control on foot and thereon to some transit camps.
In the transit Camps, motivational films are screened, copies of the Holy Quran are distributed and religious and fanatical songs with anti-India strains are sung. From the transit camps the recruits are moved to the training centers. Usually they are taken blindfolded or in fully covered trucks to make sure that they can neither identify the training sites nor the roads leading to them.
Motivation is an essential part of the training. Firebrand ulemas acting as coordinators and Mujahideen leaders are invited to speak to the recruits exhorting them to jehad. On the conclusion of the training the militants are returned to the transit camps. Once again they travel blindfolded or in covered trucks. Each trainee is given assorted weapons at the staging areas. Finally they are taken back to the line of control. The Pakistan ISI guides help the militants in finding their way through forests and mountain passes through which runs the line of control from where they can be collected later.
Author:M.L.Kotru
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