Nishikant Khajuria
JAMMU, Nov 26: Expressing his reservation over India’s `civilized’ and `democratic’ approach towards hostile Pakistan, the Director General of J&K Police Ashok Prasad has stressed the need for a re-look at the country’s strategy of being defensive and friendly.
“Out strategy of responding more in terms of dialogue has not given the degree of success we expected from Pakistan and its aggression in Valley where it was promoting terrorism, armed infiltration and pumping fake currency for disturbances here,” he said while delivering address during National Security Seminar-2013, here today.
Alleging that Pakistan did not believe in the policy of accommodating but the aggression, Mr Prasad opined that India’s democratic approach and responding in terms of dialogue need to be reviewed for safeguarding our internal security.
“We have virtually accepted a threshold of violence, which is terrorizing us in Jammu Kashmir, North East and other States where outfits like Lashker-e-Toiba and Indian Mujahideen are continuing with their disruptive activities,” he said.
Lamenting that India’s internal security was being determined by external sources and the country has been trying to engage with all the major issues this way for the last three decades, Mr Prasad said that the J&K was also one of these issues.
Terming Pak and China as the two main countries posing principal security threat to India, he elaborated on the different nature of threats from them. “Pakistan’s strategy revolves around Afghan factor, to bleed India thousand times since the time of Zulfikar Ali Bhuto and an offensive defence by creating internal problems in India while Chinese threat is territorial aggression based on the concept of strategic encircling India,” he explained.
“India’s national and internal security is broadly classified into three concentric rings, which include countries sharing land border, South East Asia and Middle East nations and NATO alliance. However, despite our approach of concession and accommodating policy we are unable to have good relations with all nations in first circles, except Bhutan,” he said adding that not only Pakistan but Sri Lanka, Nepal , Bangladesh and even Maldives were daring to adopt aggressive postures against India.
The National Security Seminar, titled Terror and Trespasses in India’s Northern Borders; Deciphering the Grand Strategies of Pakistan and China’ was organized by the Department of National Security Studies, Central University of Jammu in collaboration with the Regional branch of Indian Institute of Public Administration.
Later, on the sidelines of seminar, the DGP said that the State Police would come out with a strategy to ensure that terrorist may not succeed in their new tactic of attacking the security forces.
Replying to a query on Syeed Ali Shah Geelani’s statement favouring armed struggle in Kashmir, the DGP said that everyone has a right to say whatever he wants but if anything illegal is done, the person would be dealt with as per law. “It is not Geelani to decide the course of action but people of Kashmir who have shown their option for a democratic process by participating in elections in large number, he added.
Renowned defence experts, including former Additional Secretary of RAW Jaydev Ranade, Ex Special Secretary Rana Banerji, Maj Gen (Retd) Dhruv C Katoch, Prof Rekha Choudhary, Vice-Chancellor of CUJ, Dr S S Bloeria and Chairman of IIPA J&K chapter, Ashok Bhan attended the seminar, which was divided in two technical sessions.
‘Pakistan’s Renewed Terror Campaign Along LoC & IB’ and `Chinese Assertiveness Along LAC’ were discussed in these two sessions.
Follow our WhatsApp channel