Regional parties allowed Pak to ‘infiltrate’ Kashmir civil society: J&K DGP

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.

On the increase in terror attacks in J&K in the recent past, he said that terrorists are not much in number in Kashmir, but that does not define the situation because they are unaccountable entities. “I will give you the statistics. There are not many terrorists … there are only a few. But as I said, the situation is often not measured by the numbers. Because they are unaccountable entities,” Swain said.

An inter-state security meeting has deliberated on the new methods of infiltration by terrorists, who have been entering the state from the Punjab border, said the officer.

“Some infiltration is taking place (through the Punjab border) and it is a commonplace knowledge. We tried to deliberate between ourselves as to the new methods and the modus operandi they are adopting,” Swain told reporters on the sidelines of the event. “We also talked about tunnels. How to sort it out. We talked about how to address more effectively their use of tunnels to infiltrate,” he said.