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General Kapoor expresses concern over increasing infiltration bids | Army chief General Deepak Kapoor on Friday said expressed concern over continuing infiltration from Pakistan
and said the militants are taking advantage of snow covered areas of Pir Panjal range in Jammu and Kashmir. Interacting with the media here General Kapoor said:
"Passes in the valley (Indian Kashmir) are closed due to snow in the north Kashmir
towards the north of Pir Panjal but infiltrators are entering from south of Pir
Panjal where there is no snow." India has put three-metre high barbed wire
security-fence
along most of the 742 kilometres long Line of Control (LoC) but infiltration bids
still continued. Responding to the Union Government's initiative to offer amnesty
to hundreds of youth from Kashmir who had crossed over to the Pakistan Occupied
Kashmir (PoK) and are now willing to surrender and return home, General Kapoor
said he hoped all the aspects would be considered before a final decision in the
matter is taken. "I am sure the Home Minister and the rest of the government will
look at all the aspects before a final decision is taken. They are working out
that and I am sure inputs will be taken from all the ministries, including the
MOD (Ministry of Defence) and once a decision is taken, it will be for the good
of everybody." he added. On February 11, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram
had
said that anyone willing to give up militancy and return is welcome home. The
Jammu and Kashmir Government had earlier said that now their main job is to collect
details of youths who had gone over to PoK in the past two decades, so that their
return could be facilitated. |
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