Sanjeev Pargal
JAMMU, Oct 20: Army today said it was well prepared and focused towards preventing any untoward incident and will not allow the militant attacks to succeed just as it had thwarted all such attacks in the past and neutralized the militants successfully.
“We are prepared to deal with any kind of situation. We have put necessary mechanism in place to ensure that the militants don’t succeed in their designs. We have not allowed the militants to succeed in their designs anywhere, be it Dinanagar in Gurdaspur or any other place,” General Officer Commanding (GOC) of Jammu based Tiger Division, Major General Sanjeev Narain told reporters on the sidelines of a sport function here this morning.
Earlier, GOC 9 Corps (Rising Star Corps), Lt Gen Rajiv Tiwari, based at Yol Cantonment in Himachal Pradesh, which looks after three sensitive border districts of Jammu region including Jammu, Samba and Kathua, was scheduled to inaugurate ‘Jagruk Hindustani cricket tournament’ organised by the Army but he couldn’t reach here yesterday morning due to adverse weather conditions. Western Command GOC-in-C Lt Gen KJ Singh accompanied by Lt Gen Tiwari will now visit Jammu on October 26.
“We are aware of the prevailing situation and how the situation has been and all I would say is that we are well prepared and focused towards preventing any untoward incident,” Major General Narain said.
Lauding role of the alert Indians, whom he called as ‘Jagruk Hindustani’ linking the word with ‘Jagruk Hindustani cricket tournament’, the GOC said the alert Indians have always played a great role in foiling the terror attacks. It may be mentioned here that two civilians had captured Pakistani militant Mohammad Naved alive after an encounter at Narsu, Samroli in Udhampur district on Jammu-Srinagar National Highway on August 5. Both were rewarded with regular jobs in police.
“In all the terrorist attacks, the citizen or ‘Jagruk Hindustani’ had a role to play, whether it was in Dinanagar in Punjab where the milkman pointed out the explosive that had been placed on the railway line or what happened in Udhampur,” he said.
In Dinanagar terror attack, which took place before Narsu terror strike, a milkman had detected five Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) planted by the militants at the railway tracks. He had informed security forces and police, who had defused the IEDs, thus, averting major catastrophe.
Major General Narain said Army is the premier security force of the nation which needs to connect with people as it also has a reach in the border areas.
“We have a presence in all the areas so we look to bind with people,” he said.
On the recent terrorist attacks in Jammu region he said: “all these attacks have failed as the security forces were able to neutralize the terrorists. He added that “necessary measures have been put in place” to deal with such cases in the future.
“What needs to be done has been done by various other security forces, from the Border Security Forces to the Army,” he said.
On the presence of militants across the border and the launching camps active there, he said these were operational details which cannot be disclosed.
Replying to a question on deployment of automatic guns on the Line of Control (LoC), the GOC said such guns have not been deployed along the International Border.
“These are the things which are ongoing process and necessary measures are in place and whatever needs to be done is being done,” he said.
Stressing that people cannot be de-linked from the security of the country, he said the people are being made aware of how they can contribute towards security and nation building process.
“People cannot be de-linked from the security of the nation…They are also being made aware of how they can contribute towards security and the entire nation building (process),” Major General Narain said.
He said the Army was also offering an opportunity to the youths to showcase their talent.
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