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Zulfikar Majid, DH News Service, Srinagar, Sep 7 2017, 19:28 IST
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/631919/civilian-killed-15-injured-grenade.html
A civilian was killed while over a dozen others were injured when militants lobbed a grenade on a CRPF vehicle in Jehangir Chowk area near city centre on Thursday evening.
Police said the militant hurled a hand grenade at a passing vehicle of the CRPF near Jehangir Chowk, which missed the intended target and exploded on the road. As the area is close to the commercial hub Lal Chowk, there was a huge rush of people and 15 people received splinter injuries due to the blast.
The injured were immediately shifted to hospital for treatment, where one of them succumbed while the condition of three others is stated to be critical. Some autos and other vehicles were also damaged in the blast.
Police said the militant who threw the grenade was also injured in the incident. "Some miscreant tried to throw a grenade on the deployment but reportedly it exploded close to him and he (miscreant) is injured," SSP Srinagar Imtiyaz Parray tweeted.
The site of the blast is close to the Civil Secretariat which houses the offices of the chief minister, her cabinet colleagues and all top bureaucrats. Earlier on Wednesday, militants lobbed a grenade on Police station Shopian in south Kashmir which didn’t explode.
This was the second grenade blast in Srinagar city in less than a month's time in which civilian casualty happened. On August 13, a civilian was killed after militants hurled a grenade at a police blockade near Budyari Chowk, Dalgate in Srinagar. Militants have been using grenade attacks frequently against the security forces in the last few months.
On June 13, a series of five grenade attacks rocked southern Kashmir in which eight CRPF personnel and four policemen were injured.
Grenade explosion in Jehangir Chowk Srinagar, on Thursday. (Source: Express Photo By Shuaib Masoodi)
The deceased, identified as Maqsood Shah, was a resident of Budgam district in Jammu and Kashmir.
Grenade explosion in Jehangir Chowk Srinagar, on Thursday. (Source: Express Photo By Shuaib Masoodi)
Earlier on Wednesday, suspected militants lobbed a grenade on Police station Shopian which didn’t explode. An FIR has been lodged in this regard and investigation is underway.
Lt Gen Devraj Anbu 144 militants have been killed in the state so far this year.(HT File Photo)
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india...y-commander/story-YorctmP3e07O9fYxgkMJLI.html
The number of terror camps and launch pads across the Line of Control (LoC) in Pakistan- occupied Kashmir have gone up and around 475 militants are waiting to sneak into the Indian side, northern Army commander Lt Gen Devraj Anbu said on Thursday.
Internally, he said the NIA raids on separatists and the killing of top militant leaders by security forces have helped in improving security situation in Kashmir.
He said 144 militants have been killed in the state so far this year and the situation is “well under control”.
Gen Anbu said there have been a large number of infiltration attempts along the LoC in J&K this year but “very less” have been successful.
“We cannot tell you the exact number of the militants. But the militants, who are waiting to cross over to this side (via the LoC from Azad Kashmir) are nearly 250 in north Kashmir and around 225 in south of Pir Panjal (Jammu region),” said the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GoC-in-C) of Northern Command.
He was responding to questions from journalists after presenting gallantry and distinguished services medals to 103 army officers and jawans and certificates of appreciation to 31 units apart from 31 civilians at an investiture ceremony at the Northern Command headquarters here.
Gen Anbu said the security situation along the LoC and in the hinterland in well under control.
“We are firmly in control of the situation along the LoC... (the number of) launching pads and terrorist camps along LoC has increased as compared to the previous years,” he said.
“While infiltration attempts have increased, the success to infiltrate has been much less than previous years despite large number of infiltration attempts. That is because of our robust counter-infiltration grid that we have on LoC,” he said.
“The (number of) militants coming to this side have decreased to a large extent this year,” Gen Anbu said.
According to Multi Agency Centre (MAC) of intelligence gathering, the number of militants who have managed to infiltrate is 75 during the last eight months, he said, adding, “But according to our assessment, it is 45 to 50.”
He said the Army has created a “strong deterrence” at the LoC so that militants do not enter the Indian side.
“While attempts are more, we are preventing them from entering this side, whether in Kashmir valley or Jammu region,” the Army commander said.
About the input of a group of militants having sneaked in via Samba, he said all agencies are closely watching that. “If it manifests somewhere, we will get to know,” he added.
“The situation along the LoC and in hinterland is under control,” he said.
He said the NIA raids aimed at choking funding to separatists, “which has got direct link to terrorism in Kashmir, compliments the security operations” of forces.
“Administration (in J&K) is good. We have been able to eliminate terrorist leaders and it is complimented by the choking of funds by NIA raids. All this will have a deterring effect on the youth who are likely to become part of agitation dynamics. It has come down drastically,” he said.
“What was in November-December last year and what is now - there are very few incidents that take place. There is now a token number of persons who are on the ground as they have realized (futility of terrorism). It is only now handful people who are into this,” he added.
Regarding the issue of protests, he said, “Agitational dynamics does not mean that each and every person comes to streets and their heart and soul is into it. There is an upward curve. The government in power and security forces get to top of it.”
The Army commander said elimination of the leadership of terrorists has brought down incidents and recruitment of the local terrorists.
“It (local recruitment) happens when the terrorists have an upper hand. The youngsters in the age group of 16 to 18 get moulded by the terrorists and separatists to join the ranks,” he added.
“This is what we need to look at. The number of the locals militants joining ranks have been constant in last year years including this year,” he said.
About the militancy situation in the hinterland, Gen Anbu said, “It is improving. Those (militants) who are operating in the hinterland are foreign terrorists in north Kashmir and south Kashmir has presence of local terrorists more and foreign terrorists are lesser.”
He said the security forces are trying to dominate the south Kashmir region.
“We conduct searches keeping in mind that we do not cause any inconvenience to local people. That is where we get information from and warn them in advance. We conduct operations and they (operations) are clean. After the operation, we keep interacting with people so that they are on our side. This has had very good effect in south Kashmir,” Gen Anbu said.
“We have killed 100 militants in the past four months. A total of 144 militants have been killed so far (in Kashmir this year),” he said.
“The effect of what is happening now will menifest in a couple of months from now. But there is decrease in local youth getting recruited,” he added.
The Army commander strongly batted for reaching out to the youth of Kashmir.
“The issue that needs attention is that you need to engage the youth and the state government and everybody has to play a part in ensuring employment generation and positive security environment is created by the security forces and it will get controlled,” Gen Anbu said.
Army commander said no footprint of militants has been seen in the Jammu region.
“There is no militant presence in Jammu region. May be there will one odd such report and that too due to any infiltration. But there is no resident terrorist or presence of foreign terrorist in Jammu region,” he said in reply to a question with regard to presence of the militants in the region. PTI AB AKK
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india...ef-s-praise/story-3HaBLiMHq3iqCHHF21g96O.html
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) raided 11 more locations across Jammu and Kashmir and Gurgaon on Thursday in connection with its probe into the cross-border funding of separatist activities in the Valley.
The anti-terrorism agency had searched 27 locations across Kashmir and Delhi the previous day, an exercise that drew praise from northern army chief Lt General Devraj Anbu. According to the military head, raids have helped stabilise the situation in the Valley.
Among the people raided were GN Sumji, a leader of the pro-Pakistan faction of the Hurriyat Conference; prominent separatist Shia leader Aga Syed Hussain Badgami, who is part of the Hurriyat’s hardline faction; Razzaq Chaoudhary and Zameer Shiekh, two close aides of separatist Shabir Shah; and chartered accountants of businessman Zahoor Watali, who has already been arrested by the NIA.
“Details of fixed deposits amounting to over Rs 1 crore and lots of incriminating material – such as financial records, property-related documents and electronic devices – were seized during the raids,” said an NIA spokesperson.
The suspects were also questioned in this regard, he added.
In June, the NIA registered an FIR against unnamed Hurriyat leaders, members of the all-woman separatist group Dukhtaran-e-Millat, and associates of Pakistan-based outfits Hizbul Mujahideen and Lashkar-e-Taiba for taking money from alleged Mumbai terror attacks mastermind Hafiz Mohammed Saeed. Eight people – including Altaf Shah Fantoosh, the son-in-law of hardline Hurriyat leader SAS Geelani – were arrested a month later as part of a broader investigation into allegations of cross-border funding of last year’s unrest in the Valley, which left over 100 dead.
Meanwhile, the NIA raids found a glowing endorsement in Lt General Anbu – who attested to a marked improvement in the Kashmir situation ever since the central probe agency went on the warpath. “The choking of cross-border funding by the NIA will have an effect on the agitational dynamics of terrorism as well,” he said, adding that stone-pelting incidents have already started decreasing across the Valley.
The northern army chief also claimed that last year’s surgical strikes on terror camps across the LoC had sent the message that India can hit out at its opponents “whenever and wherever it wants to”.
“Through the surgical strikes, we wanted to drive home the point that the LoC is not a line that can’t be breached. We will breach it whenever we want, and we can go across and strike whenever we need,” Anbu said after attending an investiture ceremony in Udhampur.
The Lt General said around 475 ultras were waiting to infiltrate into north and south Kashmir from the other side of the India-Pakistan border. “A large number of terrorist camps and launch pads still exist across the south and the north of Pir Panjal. Their numbers are only increasing,” he added.
Speaking on the Kashmir situation, Anbu said the intensity of the Army operations can be gauged from the fact that over 100 ultras have been killed in the last four months. He claimed that while no militant or terror sympathiser has been spared, security personnel have tried their utmost to prevent civilian casualties.
The military chief, however, maintained that the Kashmir issue cannot be resolved through armed means. “It can happen only if the state and central governments continue working in tandem, like they have been doing,” he said.
Answering a question, the Army head ruled out the possibility of a “Doklam-type stand-off” in Ladakh. Though Anbu admitted to differing perceptions regarding the line of actual control (LAC), he said India and China have several border mechanisms in place to resolve problems emanating from incursions and face-offs.
He said India has ramped up defence infrastructure on its side of the LAC over the last 10 years, although Beijing admittedly has a head start. “We are looking at building all kinds of infrastructure, from helipads to air strips and roads. We are making great strides there,” the Lt General added.
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/631919/civilian-killed-15-injured-grenade.html
A civilian was killed while over a dozen others were injured when militants lobbed a grenade on a CRPF vehicle in Jehangir Chowk area near city centre on Thursday evening.
Police said the militant hurled a hand grenade at a passing vehicle of the CRPF near Jehangir Chowk, which missed the intended target and exploded on the road. As the area is close to the commercial hub Lal Chowk, there was a huge rush of people and 15 people received splinter injuries due to the blast.
The injured were immediately shifted to hospital for treatment, where one of them succumbed while the condition of three others is stated to be critical. Some autos and other vehicles were also damaged in the blast.
Police said the militant who threw the grenade was also injured in the incident. "Some miscreant tried to throw a grenade on the deployment but reportedly it exploded close to him and he (miscreant) is injured," SSP Srinagar Imtiyaz Parray tweeted.
The site of the blast is close to the Civil Secretariat which houses the offices of the chief minister, her cabinet colleagues and all top bureaucrats. Earlier on Wednesday, militants lobbed a grenade on Police station Shopian in south Kashmir which didn’t explode.
This was the second grenade blast in Srinagar city in less than a month's time in which civilian casualty happened. On August 13, a civilian was killed after militants hurled a grenade at a police blockade near Budyari Chowk, Dalgate in Srinagar. Militants have been using grenade attacks frequently against the security forces in the last few months.
On June 13, a series of five grenade attacks rocked southern Kashmir in which eight CRPF personnel and four policemen were injured.
Grenade explosion in Jehangir Chowk Srinagar, on Thursday. (Source: Express Photo By Shuaib Masoodi)
The deceased, identified as Maqsood Shah, was a resident of Budgam district in Jammu and Kashmir.
Grenade explosion in Jehangir Chowk Srinagar, on Thursday. (Source: Express Photo By Shuaib Masoodi)
Earlier on Wednesday, suspected militants lobbed a grenade on Police station Shopian which didn’t explode. An FIR has been lodged in this regard and investigation is underway.
Lt Gen Devraj Anbu 144 militants have been killed in the state so far this year.(HT File Photo)
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india...y-commander/story-YorctmP3e07O9fYxgkMJLI.html
The number of terror camps and launch pads across the Line of Control (LoC) in Pakistan- occupied Kashmir have gone up and around 475 militants are waiting to sneak into the Indian side, northern Army commander Lt Gen Devraj Anbu said on Thursday.
Internally, he said the NIA raids on separatists and the killing of top militant leaders by security forces have helped in improving security situation in Kashmir.
He said 144 militants have been killed in the state so far this year and the situation is “well under control”.
Gen Anbu said there have been a large number of infiltration attempts along the LoC in J&K this year but “very less” have been successful.
“We cannot tell you the exact number of the militants. But the militants, who are waiting to cross over to this side (via the LoC from Azad Kashmir) are nearly 250 in north Kashmir and around 225 in south of Pir Panjal (Jammu region),” said the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GoC-in-C) of Northern Command.
He was responding to questions from journalists after presenting gallantry and distinguished services medals to 103 army officers and jawans and certificates of appreciation to 31 units apart from 31 civilians at an investiture ceremony at the Northern Command headquarters here.
Gen Anbu said the security situation along the LoC and in the hinterland in well under control.
“We are firmly in control of the situation along the LoC... (the number of) launching pads and terrorist camps along LoC has increased as compared to the previous years,” he said.
“While infiltration attempts have increased, the success to infiltrate has been much less than previous years despite large number of infiltration attempts. That is because of our robust counter-infiltration grid that we have on LoC,” he said.
“The (number of) militants coming to this side have decreased to a large extent this year,” Gen Anbu said.
According to Multi Agency Centre (MAC) of intelligence gathering, the number of militants who have managed to infiltrate is 75 during the last eight months, he said, adding, “But according to our assessment, it is 45 to 50.”
He said the Army has created a “strong deterrence” at the LoC so that militants do not enter the Indian side.
“While attempts are more, we are preventing them from entering this side, whether in Kashmir valley or Jammu region,” the Army commander said.
About the input of a group of militants having sneaked in via Samba, he said all agencies are closely watching that. “If it manifests somewhere, we will get to know,” he added.
“The situation along the LoC and in hinterland is under control,” he said.
He said the NIA raids aimed at choking funding to separatists, “which has got direct link to terrorism in Kashmir, compliments the security operations” of forces.
“Administration (in J&K) is good. We have been able to eliminate terrorist leaders and it is complimented by the choking of funds by NIA raids. All this will have a deterring effect on the youth who are likely to become part of agitation dynamics. It has come down drastically,” he said.
“What was in November-December last year and what is now - there are very few incidents that take place. There is now a token number of persons who are on the ground as they have realized (futility of terrorism). It is only now handful people who are into this,” he added.
Regarding the issue of protests, he said, “Agitational dynamics does not mean that each and every person comes to streets and their heart and soul is into it. There is an upward curve. The government in power and security forces get to top of it.”
The Army commander said elimination of the leadership of terrorists has brought down incidents and recruitment of the local terrorists.
“It (local recruitment) happens when the terrorists have an upper hand. The youngsters in the age group of 16 to 18 get moulded by the terrorists and separatists to join the ranks,” he added.
“This is what we need to look at. The number of the locals militants joining ranks have been constant in last year years including this year,” he said.
About the militancy situation in the hinterland, Gen Anbu said, “It is improving. Those (militants) who are operating in the hinterland are foreign terrorists in north Kashmir and south Kashmir has presence of local terrorists more and foreign terrorists are lesser.”
He said the security forces are trying to dominate the south Kashmir region.
“We conduct searches keeping in mind that we do not cause any inconvenience to local people. That is where we get information from and warn them in advance. We conduct operations and they (operations) are clean. After the operation, we keep interacting with people so that they are on our side. This has had very good effect in south Kashmir,” Gen Anbu said.
“We have killed 100 militants in the past four months. A total of 144 militants have been killed so far (in Kashmir this year),” he said.
“The effect of what is happening now will menifest in a couple of months from now. But there is decrease in local youth getting recruited,” he added.
The Army commander strongly batted for reaching out to the youth of Kashmir.
“The issue that needs attention is that you need to engage the youth and the state government and everybody has to play a part in ensuring employment generation and positive security environment is created by the security forces and it will get controlled,” Gen Anbu said.
Army commander said no footprint of militants has been seen in the Jammu region.
“There is no militant presence in Jammu region. May be there will one odd such report and that too due to any infiltration. But there is no resident terrorist or presence of foreign terrorist in Jammu region,” he said in reply to a question with regard to presence of the militants in the region. PTI AB AKK
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india...ef-s-praise/story-3HaBLiMHq3iqCHHF21g96O.html
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) raided 11 more locations across Jammu and Kashmir and Gurgaon on Thursday in connection with its probe into the cross-border funding of separatist activities in the Valley.
The anti-terrorism agency had searched 27 locations across Kashmir and Delhi the previous day, an exercise that drew praise from northern army chief Lt General Devraj Anbu. According to the military head, raids have helped stabilise the situation in the Valley.
Among the people raided were GN Sumji, a leader of the pro-Pakistan faction of the Hurriyat Conference; prominent separatist Shia leader Aga Syed Hussain Badgami, who is part of the Hurriyat’s hardline faction; Razzaq Chaoudhary and Zameer Shiekh, two close aides of separatist Shabir Shah; and chartered accountants of businessman Zahoor Watali, who has already been arrested by the NIA.
“Details of fixed deposits amounting to over Rs 1 crore and lots of incriminating material – such as financial records, property-related documents and electronic devices – were seized during the raids,” said an NIA spokesperson.
The suspects were also questioned in this regard, he added.
In June, the NIA registered an FIR against unnamed Hurriyat leaders, members of the all-woman separatist group Dukhtaran-e-Millat, and associates of Pakistan-based outfits Hizbul Mujahideen and Lashkar-e-Taiba for taking money from alleged Mumbai terror attacks mastermind Hafiz Mohammed Saeed. Eight people – including Altaf Shah Fantoosh, the son-in-law of hardline Hurriyat leader SAS Geelani – were arrested a month later as part of a broader investigation into allegations of cross-border funding of last year’s unrest in the Valley, which left over 100 dead.
Meanwhile, the NIA raids found a glowing endorsement in Lt General Anbu – who attested to a marked improvement in the Kashmir situation ever since the central probe agency went on the warpath. “The choking of cross-border funding by the NIA will have an effect on the agitational dynamics of terrorism as well,” he said, adding that stone-pelting incidents have already started decreasing across the Valley.
The northern army chief also claimed that last year’s surgical strikes on terror camps across the LoC had sent the message that India can hit out at its opponents “whenever and wherever it wants to”.
“Through the surgical strikes, we wanted to drive home the point that the LoC is not a line that can’t be breached. We will breach it whenever we want, and we can go across and strike whenever we need,” Anbu said after attending an investiture ceremony in Udhampur.
The Lt General said around 475 ultras were waiting to infiltrate into north and south Kashmir from the other side of the India-Pakistan border. “A large number of terrorist camps and launch pads still exist across the south and the north of Pir Panjal. Their numbers are only increasing,” he added.
Speaking on the Kashmir situation, Anbu said the intensity of the Army operations can be gauged from the fact that over 100 ultras have been killed in the last four months. He claimed that while no militant or terror sympathiser has been spared, security personnel have tried their utmost to prevent civilian casualties.
The military chief, however, maintained that the Kashmir issue cannot be resolved through armed means. “It can happen only if the state and central governments continue working in tandem, like they have been doing,” he said.
Answering a question, the Army head ruled out the possibility of a “Doklam-type stand-off” in Ladakh. Though Anbu admitted to differing perceptions regarding the line of actual control (LAC), he said India and China have several border mechanisms in place to resolve problems emanating from incursions and face-offs.
He said India has ramped up defence infrastructure on its side of the LAC over the last 10 years, although Beijing admittedly has a head start. “We are looking at building all kinds of infrastructure, from helipads to air strips and roads. We are making great strides there,” the Lt General added.
