Jammu: Director General J&K Police (DGP) R R Swain Monday said that some infiltration is taking place from Punjab border and the recent joint inter-State meeting between J&K and Punjab police discussed counter-measures to foil the designs of the enemy.
Talking to reporters in Jammu, DGP Swain said that some infiltration is taking place from Punjab border as well. “This (infiltration) is commonplace knowledge. Their (foreign militants’) number is less but they are unaccountable. Even one unaccountable entity or a man sent to kill indiscriminately without any connection to this land with no purpose but to repeat the level of violence or to increase it is a challenge,” he said.
The J&K police chief while replying to a query about a recent inter-State security review meeting between J&K Police and Punjab Police in Kathua district. “We put our minds together to deliberate on the modus operandi militants are adopting. We also discussed tunnel threats as well. We talked about how to address more effectively their use of tunnels to infiltrate. There are certain things of operational confidentiality, but we have a response which will eventually work,” he said.
The DGP said that the security forces will jointly deal with the challenge of militants. “They (foreign militants) have found a gap for sure. We will deal with it…,” he said.
Interestingly, five soldiers were killed and as many injured in the militant ambush at Kathua last week. The latest attack marked the second major incident in Kathua district in a month The Jammu region has seen a spurt in militants’ attacks since January this year. In the past three years, 43 soldiers were killed in the Jammu region alone.
A series of joint security review meetings have been held in the region to counter the emerging threats. As per J&K Police chief, the spate of attacks by foreign militants was an attempt to revive the militancy on the lines of what it was between 1995 to 2005. He also said the attacks were also aimed to trigger a communal frenzy but Jammu people have understood it wasn’t Hindu versus Muslims
