Police seizes camera-fitted drone flying over Kishtwar jail
Despite several attempts foiled by security agencies, Pakistan sponsored militant groups and ISI is desperately trying to revive militancy in Doda-Kistwar Districts and Rajouri-Poonch belt of Jammu Province.
In a first-ever incident of its kind, Jammu and Kashmir Police on Tuesday evening seized a Chinese drone fitted with a camera which was allegedly flying over the premises of a high-security district jail at Kishtwar, reportedly 101 inmates inside the Kishtwar district jail including 25 militants were lodged.
Recently, a major plot by Pakistani spy agency Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) to revive militancy in Jammu region has been unearthed with the arrest of six persons from whom photographs and videos of strategic locations have been seized.
Police had also busted a Hizbul Mujahedeen drug smuggling nexus by arresting a smuggler near Line of Control (LOC) in Poonch along with 12kg heroin and also exposed how OGWs and sleeper cells are connected with their handlers across line of control in Pakistan.
A recovery of Pakistani SIM cards, currency and weapons from a hideout in Poonch last month and arrests of two youths with two AK-47 rifles in Rajouri, last year dropped enough hints that Pakistan and their OGWs are trying every possible effort with their handlers on the other side of Line of Control to revive militancy in Jammu province and somehow they have succeeded in reviving militancy in Kishtwar and Doda.
“One should understand that fight is for Chenab water and not for Jhelum and Dal Lake. The revival of militancy in Chenab region and Peer Panjal is Pakistan’s focus and Jammu is worst hit due to this new dimension,” ex-J&K, police chief, M.M Khajuria said.
He further said since Jammu is on the radar of Pakistan and militants, the government’s claim to have controlled the situation is not realistic and need to be reciprocated with same aggression.
however, according to recent statement of Inspector General of Police (IGP) Jammu Zone, MK Sinha, ten militants are active in Kishtwar, 8 of them belonging to Hizb-Ul-Mujahideen and rest to Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), at the moment.