Jammu and Kashmir DGP R R Swain on Monday said the regional parties in the Valley were responsible for Pakistan ‘infiltrating’ Kashmir civil society. He even accused them of “cultivating leaders of terror networks to further their electoral prospects”.
“Pakistan successfully came to infiltrate all important aspects of our civil society, thanks to the regional, so-called mainstream politics in the Valley. There is ample evidence to show that many had owned the art of running with the hare and hunting with the hounds, which left both the common man and the security men bewildered, frightened, and confused. Visiting homes of killed terrorists and expressing sympathy in public became the normal.
While the elimination of new recruits in terrorism was allowed and tacitly encouraged, those who facilitated the recruitment and arranged finances were never investigated,” said the senior officer while speaking at a function at IIM Jammu.
Talking about the death by accidental drowning of two girls in 2014, he said the incident was allowed to be “hijacked by the narrative terrorism, who held the Valley at ransom with hartals, arson, and rioting for many weeks”.
“A very detailed investigation by the CBI and verified by the AIIMS forensics proved it was an outright falsehood. Things had come to such a pass that the so-called mainstream political parties had started cultivating leaders of terror networks… and sometimes directly to further their electoral prospects…,” said DGP Swain.
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