^^ The J&K police is mostly locals, 70% muslim. The IED detection, on a tipoff and defusal was done by them.
The tip-offs are from locals. Without tipoffs, no intelligence about IEDs or arms cache would be possible.
And just like the TTP don't usually fight the PA face to face and prefer to use car bombs and explosives which eventually end up killing civilians, so is the case here. Moreover, targetted killings of unarmed political activists is a reality. Whats even more interesting that before 9/11 they had even started throwing acid and threatening Kashmir women who were not wearing scarfs and abayas. And post JKLF ceasefire in 94, the militancy has been taken over by foreigners. A recent statement by a Kashmiri minister clarified this by explaining that 95% of militants were of foreign origin.
Source: http://www.defence.pk/forums/kashmir-war/41603-95-militants-kashmir-outside-ghulam-nabi-azad.html
The tip-offs are from locals. Without tipoffs, no intelligence about IEDs or arms cache would be possible.
And just like the TTP don't usually fight the PA face to face and prefer to use car bombs and explosives which eventually end up killing civilians, so is the case here. Moreover, targetted killings of unarmed political activists is a reality. Whats even more interesting that before 9/11 they had even started throwing acid and threatening Kashmir women who were not wearing scarfs and abayas. And post JKLF ceasefire in 94, the militancy has been taken over by foreigners. A recent statement by a Kashmiri minister clarified this by explaining that 95% of militants were of foreign origin.
Source: http://www.defence.pk/forums/kashmir-war/41603-95-militants-kashmir-outside-ghulam-nabi-azad.html
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