Focus of infiltration now largely Pir Panjal, Nepal: Army Commander’Kashmir situation is better, nothing to worry’Focus of infiltration now largely Pir Panjal, Nepal: Army Commander Army soldiers patrol on a snow-covered area near the LoC, in Poonch. Stating that Kashmir situation is better, a top Army commander on Saturday said that focus of infiltration has now shifted to south of Pir Panjal and even some infiltrators may have trickled in via Nepal.“The infiltration does not take place only through the Valley. I am not saying that we have put in place a system which ensures zero infiltration. Yes, there is a possibility of infiltration taking place here, but in the recent years, the way we have made the fence stronger, the way the deployment has been made and the surveillance equipments there, the success rate of infiltration has gone down,” one of top Army commanders told a selected group journalists during an informal interaction here.
As a result, what happens is that when there is pressure on and one side, they try the other sides, the alternate routes.”
They (infiltrators) are now trying the Rajouri-Poonch routes, the areas of south of Pir Panjal. The infiltration here (in Kashmir valley) has gone down compared to other routes,” he said. “The focus of infiltration has largely now shifted to south of Pir Panjal and in fact, there are inputs that some people may have also trickled in via Nepal.” Asked whether there has been any successful infiltration in Kashmir, he said, “so far on record, negative”.“Till the end of May, everything has been taken care of,” he said. “There was a particular group which had come and you are aware that it got eliminated at Bandipora and Sopore.”
KASHMIR SITUATION:About the prevailing situation in Kashmir, the senior Army General said that he thinks it is a sensitive phase, but at the same time, many things are under control. “Only killing the terrorists will not make it go away. There are other things which have to go along the kinetic operations and on which we have to work,” he said. “But, the overall situation is very much under control.”About the recent target killings, he said “when a person comes under pressure and is pushed to the wall, when he feels that he is losing the control, then he takes up such things”. “There are a few aspects as to why they are happening,” he said. “Either it is to provoke the security forces, or to bring a fear factor among the people that their writ still runs, or to soft targets.”especially Kashmiri Pandits, you see the impact, the entire country gets shaken up, the Centre, the state administration gets shaken up,” he said. “They also know, in terms of their capacity, which is the weakest link as they are working in the society, roaming around in the society and it is easy to target them.”