Thursday, April 09, 2009

Pak Making Moves on J&K

Army commandos take on Taliban in J&K
Infiltrators from Pakistan are making one of the most organised and concerted bids since the Kargil war to cross the LoC and enter Jammu & Kashmir.

The army is locked in encounters with heavily armed infiltrators at eight locations along the LoC. As many as 400 militants are reportedly waiting to cross over from Pakistan and target the Lok Sabha elections.

Intense gunbattles are on in Uri, Baramulla, Kupwara, Lolab, Kangan, Wusan, Hafruda forests and Gurez. Sources said that 20 to 40 militants may have managed to sneak in.
It looks like Pak is planning another stunt to create conditions where it can divert its troops away from fighting Taliban and bring them back to the border with India, on the pretext of "Indian aggression" at the border.

With the backlash from the Mumbai attacks still fresh in its memory, Pak won't be looking to immediately repeat another similar incident back-to-back. So now they'll try something different, and J&K then presents itself as another useful opportunity.

They'll now try their hand at infiltrating J&K, and orchestrating a deepening escalation of military conflict there. They can then hope for this to culminate in an Indo-Pak border clash which will give Pak the excuse it needs to pull its troops back from the War on Terror.

Whenever Pak feels too much pain from the US-imposed War on Terror, then it needs to seek relief by creating a diversion so that it can withdraw its troops from the fray. We Indians then become Pak's target of convenience whenever it faces any difficulties with the Americans. The more desperate Pak becomes, the more Indians will become their targets.

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