I have been to kashmir, before the stone throwing incidents. It was like any place in India(Sri Nagar).
In the height of militancy all these were needed, but now, not really necessary.
This is what you think.
It is really difficult now a days for any terrorist to sneak in. The local militancy is all time low.
By keeping the forces, you are creating more militancy.
This is again a false perception. I have been to J&K as recent as 3 months back. Due to my work nature I have to travel a lot among Himalayan states. It looks calm only from outside. Tensions are still there. AFSPA is the only thing that grants our soldiers some sort of basic protection from human rights terrorist supporters and sold out media.
The army is just playing safe, because it does not trust the intelligence of leadership.
In India there is neither leadership nor intelligence working properly so Army cannot afford to have all their sacrifices undone with a stupid firangi fraud and a clueless, ignorant dodo running the defense ministry. Why do you think MOD let the central command decide? Come on man, use common logic.
But this issue can be solved by use of force. Force is necessary just to maintain the law and order, which JK police is capable of(or a few company of CRPF).
Army cannot be withdrawn. J&K is a key border state that has seen 20 years of jihad. Even now as recent as last month, there were jihadi attacks on troops and common civilians by militants throwing grenades and killing some of them. You seriously have no idea what it is like in Kashmir. Maybe for a 5-10 day vacation trip it sounds all cool and calm. But stay there any longer, visit any deeper and you will see that it is not as bright as it looks.
Nobody is telling the army to go. They can be mobilized very fast if situation demands.
That's the reason why Operation Parakram was done; to assess the troop mobilization capability from all parts of India to all bordering regions. Turned out that our military (excluding the armored brigade, as a secondary assessment) has the speed of an ephant on tranquilizers.
The last thing you want is the J&K state police left alone to deal with Jihad.
Sorry no can do. Troops are needed there until Pakistan's Jihad factory can shut down forever.
Finally Omar cant repeal AFSPA. Only center can do.
But he is right in demanding that, because people are demanding it.
Wrong. People are not demanding it. Geela-ni is demanding it because his jihadi networks get torn apart by the military forces. Everytime that loser plans something, the Army pummels his men.
You need to know the politics of J&K properly. Let me tell you; it is the same as any other state. The only difference is that it is in the border and in the grip of Jihad. This idiot Omar is not asking because he wants people's demands to be met (separatists only ask for it, common people are at peace with the Army right now the most. Why do you think Pakistanis are so pissed?).
The reality is that he wants absolute state power to himself like other CMs. As per AFSPA, it gives enough political power to the Army or any other branch in the state to overrule anything that this stupid dope has to say. Which means that any statement that he makes in favor of (his personal) gains, can be overruled which has happened a lot of times. Because of this, the fool is asking to remove AFSPA: just to get his hands on absolute CM
kursi.
Tomorrow if the militancy (Heaven's forbid) started again, this clown and his family would run away to UK on first flight available. It is not the first time he'd be doing that trust me. Till jihad was raging in 90s, most of the time this joker was in Europe in some luxurious house while commandos and soldiers like many of my (cousin) brothers were sweating and bleeding it out in the killing Himalayan colds.
AFSPA will NOT be removed no matter how much ignorants, pseudo-liberals, Arundhati Roys and Omars shout. Until Jihad factory is sealed shut and obliterated, AFSPA is here to stay.
I am sure the rest of the country and millions of people including many local J&K families who have their sons/fathers/brothers etc in the Army will agree with me.