Terming multiple militancy incidents in Kishtwar as unfortunate, Army’s White Knight Corps Commander Lt Gen Paramjit Singh on Saturday said that forces won’t allow revival of militancy in the district and added that the operation to track down militants is continuously going on in the area after the recent attack.
Lt Gen Singh was talking to media persons on the sidelinesof Rajouri Day event held by army and civil administration in advanced landingground of Rajouri.
“The three militancy related incidents in Kishtwar area cause of concern. Intelligence agencies, police and army have prepared ajoint strategy and the same is being implemented on ground.” he saidadding that many people involved in these incidents have been arrested and evennow operations are going on in the area.
“I assure that if there are attempts to revivemilitancy in Kishtwar, we will not allow it to happen.” Lt Gen Singh said.
In his statement, Lt Gen Paramjit Singh also said that inlast one and a half month, 513 ceasefire violations have taken place on theLine of Control and among these violations, heavy weapons have been used forover 100 times by Pakistan and Indian army has given befitting reply to everyviolation.
When asked about the casualties suffered by Pakistan inIndian retaliation, Lt Gen Singh said, “Pakistan army do not declare theircausalities but the information collected from sources disclosed that Pakistanhas suffered casualties six times higher than the number on our side.”
The army corpscommander also said Pakistan used heavy weapons including artillery on Line ofControl to target Indian side and all the ceasefire violations and othermischievous acts from Pakistan on LoC have received befitting retaliation fromIndian army.
On sniper attacks from Pakistani side on LoC, he said,”defensive measures have been put in place after such attacks that tookplace in last two to three months.”
He also shared figures of sniper attacks and revealed thatonly four sniper shot incidents took place from January 1 to February 26 andafter that not even a single incident of sniper attack has taken place.
While replying to a question regarding attempts of somepolitical parties to politicise the name of army, Lt Gen Singh said, “armyworks under the constitutional framework and army has its own task and mandateand army does not want to fall in any such issue.”
When asked about present security scenario in Rajouri andPoonch, he said that after 1990s, army, civil population, civil administrationand police worked jointly to eradicate militancy from Rajouri and Poonch butstill attempts are being made to disturb the peace of the two districts.
“Till the time we all (army, police, civiladministration and civil population) will keep working in close synergy, theattempts to revive militancy in Rajouri and Poonch cannot achievesuccess.” said Lt Gen Paramjit Singh.