Intelligence agencies have warned the government that repeated attempts of infiltration along the LoC are part a larger game-plan of the Pakistan-based terror sponsors. These organisations have asked their Special Service Group to launch Border Action Teams in sectors identified by them for fresh terrorist violence.
The inputs indicated that terrorists of Hizbul Mujahideen, LeT and JeM held a meeting at Budgam where these terror groups had planned to work together and launch attack on security forces in coming days. Winter may not be as peaceful in Kashmir as central agencies are also aware of plans of terrorists groups to launch attacks along the national highway passing through Anantnag, Pulwama and in the vicinity of Srinagar city as well as Ramban and Udhampur districts in Jammu region.
In June, movement of terrorists with an intention to carry out BAT action was reported opposite Gurez, Keran, Naugam, Uri and Rampur sectors in Valley region as well as Poonch, Krisna Ghati and Bhimber Gali sectors in Jammu region. However, in July this year , Machhal and Tangdhar sectors in the Valley region as well as Rajouri and Naushera sectors in Jammu region were the additional sectors where movement of terrorists were indicated for BAT actions.
The intelligence data also indicates an increase in the movement of terrorists—615 terrorists at various positions across the border in July as compared to 598 in the month of June. The maximum movement of terrorists was indicated opposite the Poonch sector. These movements were indicated opposite Gurez , Machhal, Keran , Tangdhar, Naugam, Uri and Rampur sectors in Valley region as well as Poonch , Bhimber Gali and Krishna ghati , Rajouri and Naushera sectors of Jammu region.
Inputs also indicated that as compared to June 2017, there was a drop in the movement of terrorists opposite Machhal, Keran, Tangdhar, Rampur and Krishna Ghati sectors. However, Poonch, Bhimber Gali, Rajouri and Naushera sectors recorded more inputs regarding movement of terrorists across the LoC in PoK.
Out of the 45 attempted infiltration attempts (39 in the Valley and six in Jammu) in July, five terrorists succeeded in infiltrating, data collated by the central agencies reveals. "The fact is that the terror violence in JK has not spiked immediately. The problem has been festering since 2014 if we compare the data over the last three year ," said a top security official handling Jammu and Kashmir affairs .
Recent official data also shows that terrorist violence in Jammu and Kashmir has gone up twice since 2014 and the number of security forces killed has doubled; civilians killed has gone up thrice while civilian injuries have been six times this year as compared to 2014.
The NDA came to power in 2014 and during that year terrorist violence stood at 102 terror incidents killing 25 security personnel, 16 civilians besides injuring 35 others. There were 93 terror incidents in 2015 killing 19 civilians and 27 security men . In 2016, there were 165 incidents killing 16 civilians and 45 security personnel .
Now, fresh government data upto September 15 this year shows a spurt to a total of 202 incidents of terrorist violence in Jammu and Kashmir killing 56 security personnel, 53 civilians and injuring 208 others. Besides, 56 security personnel were killed and 232 others injured. However, militants killed and injured has also gone up since 2014 as number of encounters has risen from 39 to 63 so far this year killing 145 militants as compared to 67 in the year 2014.
