NEW DELHI: Prior to now eight days, two navy camps in Indian-administered Kashmir have been attacked by militants.
On Sept. 26, 4 militants focused the Indian military’s 76 Artillery unit on the Uri-Kaman highway close to the Line of Management (LoC) earlier than being killed by safety forces.
The most recent assault came about on Tuesday, at a extremely fortified Border Safety Power (BSF) camp close to Srinagar airport. 4 militants scaled the camp’s safety wall, threw grenades, and opened fireplace indiscriminately.
The firefight started round four:00 a.m. native time and lasted for 10 hours, ensuing within the demise of the 4 attackers and one BSF officer.
Muneer Ahmad Khan, inspector normal of police in Jammu and Kasmir, instructed Arab Information the assault was “the handiwork of (Pakistan based mostly) Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) militants.”
Khan added, “There are just a few extra militants across the valley and we’ve got to trace them down.”
One of many safety personnel concerned within the gunbattle on Tuesday instructed Arab Information, “In contrast to native teams, these militants had been well-trained, and it confirmed of their combating precision. They had been well-equipped and fairly ready to deal with a protracted battle.”
Shuja Ul Haq, a Srinagar-based journalist who has been masking militancy within the valley for greater than a decade, stated there’s now “a revival of suicide assaults within the (Kashmir) valley,” including that for over a decade there had been none.
“Fidayeen (suicide) assaults had been widespread in 1990s, however they’ve picked up once more,” Haq instructed Arab Information. “Based on the safety personnel, males had been despatched from throughout the border to execute this process.”
Haq added, “JeM has been silent for fairly a while. However there was already anticipation that there could be retaliation from the militants after the Indian safety personnel lately eradicated greater than 120 militants within the valley.”
Suman Sharma, a safety analyst and former teacher on the Indian Army Academy, identified that the escalation in assaults coincides with the anniversary of India’s cross-border strike into Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
“India has been in a celebratory mode on the anniversary of the surgical strike,” she stated. “The current assault is an try by the militant teams — who’re known as non-state actors by India — to (diminish) Indian euphoria and present that the cross-border navy assault by New Delhi has not affected them in any respect.”
Nevertheless, Sharma continued: “New Delhi’s aggressive posturing within the valley for the final year-and-a-half has not introduced any tangible outcomes both in Kashmir or on the border, so (they) want to speak. Carry completely different stakeholders on the desk.”
NEW DELHI: Prior to now eight days, two navy camps in Indian-administered Kashmir have been attacked by militants.
On Sept. 26, 4 militants focused the Indian military’s 76 Artillery unit on the Uri-Kaman highway close to the Line of Management (LoC) earlier than being killed by safety forces.
The most recent assault came about on Tuesday, at a extremely fortified Border Safety Power (BSF) camp close to Srinagar airport. 4 militants scaled the camp’s safety wall, threw grenades, and opened fireplace indiscriminately.
The firefight started round four:00 a.m. native time and lasted for 10 hours, ensuing within the demise of the 4 attackers and one BSF officer.
Muneer Ahmad Khan, inspector normal of police in Jammu and Kasmir, instructed Arab Information the assault was “the handiwork of (Pakistan based mostly) Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) militants.”
Khan added, “There are just a few extra militants across the valley and we’ve got to trace them down.”
One of many safety personnel concerned within the gunbattle on Tuesday instructed Arab Information, “In contrast to native teams, these militants had been well-trained, and it confirmed of their combating precision. They had been well-equipped and fairly ready to deal with a protracted battle.”
Shuja Ul Haq, a Srinagar-based journalist who has been masking militancy within the valley for greater than a decade, stated there’s now “a revival of suicide assaults within the (Kashmir) valley,” including that for over a decade there had been none.
“Fidayeen (suicide) assaults had been widespread in 1990s, however they’ve picked up once more,” Haq instructed Arab Information. “Based on the safety personnel, males had been despatched from throughout the border to execute this process.”
Haq added, “JeM has been silent for fairly a while. However there was already anticipation that there could be retaliation from the militants after the Indian safety personnel lately eradicated greater than 120 militants within the valley.”
Suman Sharma, a safety analyst and former teacher on the Indian Army Academy, identified that the escalation in assaults coincides with the anniversary of India’s cross-border strike into Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
“India has been in a celebratory mode on the anniversary of the surgical strike,” she stated. “The current assault is an try by the militant teams — who’re known as non-state actors by India — to (diminish) Indian euphoria and present that the cross-border navy assault by New Delhi has not affected them in any respect.”
Nevertheless, Sharma continued: “New Delhi’s aggressive posturing within the valley for the final year-and-a-half has not introduced any tangible outcomes both in Kashmir or on the border, so (they) want to speak. Carry completely different stakeholders on the desk.”
