JK News Today
Srinagar, September 1:
The Jammu and Kashmir police have no plans nor any policy design to implement tit-for tat attacks on the militants or their families on the pattern of Punjab during the years of Khalistan agitation in 1980s and early 1990s.
“ There is no such plan ,” a senior police officer who has dealt with the Kashmir militancy since its start in late 1980s told JK NEWS TODAY on Saturday morning .
All the reports in media drawing comparisons to Punjab of the 1980s and later as also the suggestion that police is pursuing a scorched earth policy against the militants or their families is absurd, he said. He said that “this is a sheer propaganda by those who do not peace to return to Jammu and Kashmir.”
The incidents of the violence and the arrest of the family members of the militant commanders and the subsequent serial spate of abductions of the policemen and their family members has left many tongues wagging in Kashmir and outside that this was part of the tit policy that was playing out in the Valley, particularly South Kashmir, the birthplace of the new generation militancy.
A fear neurosis has gripped the families of the policemen who fear reprisals in the form of abductions and killing by militants to the anti-militancy operations undertaken by the security forces . They have chosen to sidestep the real issue that the men in uniform have a duty to do and that is to keep the place safe from the inimical elements . The police and militants cannot be judged from the same page, but at the same time it is absolutely wrong to punish the families of the two sides for the anti-militancy operations or the deadly attacks mounted by the militants against security forces .
