- Tuesday, November 26, 2024
By: Shubham Ghosh
A VOLUMINOUS dossier by the Indian Army has brought to the fore Pakistan’s terror designs aimed at India, the country’s India Today website has reported.
The publication has reported that the 33-page dossier shows in details how the Pakistani establishment, including its army, conducts infiltration bids across the border with India and how the country’s Hindu minority is being targeted.
The army’s document highlights the killings of police officers, teachers and migrant workers in Jammu and Kashmir by terrorists that are backed by Pakistan and how the latter kills political workers and brainwashes youth in the union territory to join the terror network.
The first section of the file, titled ‘Terrorist Incidents Along The LoC And In The Hinterland’ speaks in details about 16 attempts made by Pakistani terrorists to cross into into India in 2020-2021, the India Today report said.
The report also shows the route the terrorists take every time across various sectors along the international border and the arms and documents that the security forces seize from them.
It also speaks about the number of terrorists the security forces neutralise.
“The unabashed state-sponsored terror machinery operating from Pakistani soil remains rooted to a familiar modus operandi. Identify gullible or helpless youth in desperate need of money, indoctrinate them, drum radical and spiteful ideas into their impressionable minds and make them fight the so-called battle of jihad. If the catchment area extends to Kashmir, it includes Pakistan as well,” the report says, highlighting the various recruits made from Kashmir Valley.
Another section of the dossier focuses on the target killings in Kashmir.
“In a change of tack in recent years, especially after Article 370 that conferred special status on J&K was abrogated in 2019, Pakistan-sponsored terrorists have targeted civilians in the Valley. The idea is to create a sense of fear and insecurity in the minds of ordinary citizens – who are easy to target – while at the same time peddling a false narrative that things are not ‘normal’ in the former state. And all of this is done in the facade of simmering ‘local’ discontent, by ‘indigenous’ terror groups that are propped up and patronized by the Pakistani Deep State,” it said, according to India Today.
“Since March this year, there has been a spurt in such violence, with over a dozen cases reported. Many of those targeted were religious minorities. According to data put forth by the Ministry of Home Affairs, 87 civilians have been killed in J&K since the abrogation of Article 370 on August 5, 2019, compared to 177 civilians in the previous five years. The victims of terrorist attacks include women and children,” it added.
“Pakistan – supported terrorist groups have targeted political workers, leaders and elected representatives in J&K to dissuade them from participating in the political process and government functioning. A total of 27 such people from different political parties have been killed in the last three years,” the file said, adding, “In a country that has seen more than three decades of military rule and where the Army calls the shots irrespective of which party forms the government, terrorism with a view to destabilising Jammu and Kashmir has thrived. Despite being placed in the ‘Grey List’ of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), its support to terrorists continues unabated. It’s time the country was named and shamed globally and held accountable for its actions.”
