No troop cut in J-K: Army Chief

General Kapoor said infiltration is still continuing on the Line of Control (LoC) and mentioned about the fresh incidents of infiltration in the past few days. “This morning also, our troops foiled an infiltration attempt on the LoC by killing three militants in Tanghdar.”

The Army Chief said the graph of violence in the past three-four weeks has again gone up. “It has been seen that whenever there is a peace in the Valley for some time, incidents of violence do take place. The return of normalcy is invariably followed by some incidence of violence,” he said, adding that militants indulge in violence to give an impression that things are not normal.

General Kapoor said the Army has been given a task by the Indian Government and the troops are following that. “Once the Government feels that the situation is right, we will be happy to go back to our barracks,” he said.

On Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s zero tolerance on the human right violation cases, General Kapoor said that the Army is always seeing to it that no human right violation takes place in the Valley. “We are following the Prime Minister’s instructions about the human rights violations,” he said, adding that the Army has always acted quickly to punish those personnel found guilty of human right violation in the Valley.

Later, the Army Chief also chaired a high-level meeting of senior Army officers at 15 Corps headquarters in Srinagar. The new chief was also apprised about the situation in Kashmir and on the LoC. General Kapoor also met Governor Lt-Gen S K Sinha (retd) and discussed the current situation of the state with him.