Sadh Bhawna And Flag March

Quote:" The armed insurgency in Kashmir is gradually changing course to thrive on more homegrown militants, rather than foreign fighters, with social media as a rampant and virtually unchecked tool, an internal assessment of the army has said.

The 14-page analysis -- which HT has viewed -- also raises concerns that glaring policy failures now threaten to undo precious gains made against terror outfits in Kashmir.

Unquote: The 14-page analysis is only a facade. It is the brain child of those who advocate thinning of the Down Town Area by allotment of residential plots in favour of the stone pelters and job for them to eradicate the menace. I heard Bilal Khan (Name changed), Senior Superintendent of Police making fun of the proposal when he to his colleague on the other end said: “We ought to send our children for stone pelting rather than to impart quality education to them. As stone pelters job and plot worth lacs were assured to them when with Degree in hand their future was uncertain.
In the initial years of militancy one young Army Major mocked at his relation at Jammu for the scare of militancy. He boasted and claimed that Army is capable of restoring normalcy within days and not months or years. After a few months active combat in the valley, the two met again at Jammu. The Officer in uniform said: “You were right to predict that the menace is surmountable. The militant caught alive in the crack down or in the encounter is handed over to local police for legal action after preliminary investigation. Next time again the same militant is netted in the same action and in the same fashion handed to local police. The hide and seek continues unabated. The menace will never come to an end. Vested interests will never let it be over. It is a goldmine for many.”
Sadhbawna is no solution. Solution lies in ensuring protection to those who are loyal to India and to those who don’t favour militancy.
As rightly said by the late Zia-Ul-Haq, we all Kashmiris are the progeny of Brahmans. Brahman militant will always prove a round peg in a square hole. We still scare our children by saying: “Khokhea ha oie”. One name in Kashmir is enough to scare lacs. On the day Z A Bhutoo was assassinated, Hassea Pachie and one burqa clad lady chased lacs of people at Chotta Bazar Crossing. The two managed the show that the then D C Srinagar, Abdul Hamid Khan and SSP Kirmani along with a contingent of police force failed to do. Engaging Indian Army for the purpose that could be managed by police action or by counter insurgents or renegades is a wrong policy. Flag March is conducted to make show of the force. It becomes meaningless when it becomes a daily routine and substitutes or replaces Head constable Balji.
During the days of Sadiq regime, unprecedented fires were attributed to Jansangh. Some believed Jansangh was a ferocious bird that sucked blood of its prey. One farmer Subhana(Name changed) in Badgam rushed to his field to caution his wife to get indoor, lest like Ruhuet (name changed) she too fell prey to the ferocious bird Jansangh. He told her as an eyewitness that Jansangh came flying, placed its beak on Rahtees neck and sucked her blood to let her die.
S K Dhar dressed in overcoat and a hat with feather in it was on wheel. He stopped his ambassador car on the Humhama road to inspect the land we had purchased. The moment me, I K Raina and S K Dhar set foot on the road, the village girls collecting herbs left their baskets and sickles behind and ran crying :”Mojaie Jangsangh hi aave”