Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 1: BJP National Executive Member & Chief Spokesperson of the State, Dr Jitendra Singh said here today that there is an ominous Kashmir-Kabul militancy nexus in the making at the behest of ISI and that Pakistan is trying to push in Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) cadre into the provinces of Kunar and Nuristan in expectation of the US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan next year while simultaneously transferring militant cadre recruited from its Khyber Paktunkhwa province to boost militant ranks in the Kashmir Valley. This has also been confirmed by the US Intelligence, he claimed.
Dr Jitendra Singh said, in recent times, Islamabad was constrained to divert as many as 150,000 troops to the Pakistan-Afghan border but with the US troop withdrawal approaching and Pakistan sensing that it may soon have a friendly regime ensconced in Kabul, the Pakistani army and LeT are once more concentrating on destabilizing Kashmir. He cited LeT chief Hafiz Sayeed who had in a recent interview said “Full-scale armed Jihad will begin soon in Kashmir after American forces withdraw from Afghanistan.”
Dr Jitendra Singh warned, Kashmir is starting to simmer again and as a well-calculated design, attacks by Lashkar’s Border Action Team (BAT) to ambush Indian Army patrols have gone up.
He said, the Pakistan gameplan is quite clear “infiltrate militants eastward and westward, across the Durand and Radcliffe lines’’. Rawalpindi’s men in khaki want to turn the clock back to the 1980s when Afghanistan was a Pakistani colony and Kashmir was in flames, he added.
He urged Government to send out strong deterrent signals to Pakistan instead of engaging in soft diplomacy and the Chief Minister of J & K be asked to stop creating confusion by harping on strategically incorrect demand to revoke AFSPA or by showing selective bias in favour of Pak friendly elements within the State in a bid to appease the separatist-centric constituency.
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