Srinagar,(Samajweekly) After the completion of one year of the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu & Kashmir, active militancy is in its “lowest” phase in the erstwhile state in decades and all terror groups are “leaderless” due to the continuous anti-terror operations by the security forces as well as the administration.
Dilbag Singh, J&K Director General of Police, shared the details while talking to IANS here about the current situation in the Union territory since the nullification of Article 370 on August 5 last year.
“The number of active terrorists in J&K has been around 200 compared to 350 or 400 earlier. All the terror organisations are leaderless now and those militants who are recruited as leaders of any group by Pakistan-based handlers are caught or killed,” Singh said.
“In 2019, a total of 131 militants were killed till July but only 29 were killed from July to December that year as we were busy maintaining law and order, and our operations had declined. In total, we killed 160 militants in 2019 in 67 successful operations and over 5,000 cordon and area search operations,” Singh said.
This year so far, Singh said, a total of 150 terrorists have been killed.
Of these 150 terrorists, 30 were foreign and 120 were locals, including 39 top commanders of all major groups. “All terrorists are almost leaderless now,” the DGP said.
Calling 2018 a “landmark” year compared to 2013, the DGP said that security is “much better now than ever before”.
“The number of poster boys of militancy started increasing in 2013 and major recruitment was done till 2017. Poster boys like Manan Wani, Burhan Wani and Riyaz Naikoo were so famous here at that time. Youths used to carry their photos and girls got attracted to them...
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