This enabled the Centre also to take direct responsibility for the development in the state that had been marred by the highly corrupt regimes of Kashmiri leaders who used to heavily bank on the separatist Hurriyat Conference in elections. Modi government demonstrated its political will in ordering a surgical strike at Balakot in the interior of Pakistan in February 2019 to punish those who were behind the terror attack on a CRPF convoy, carried out at Pulwama earlier.Ĭross-border terrorism in Kashmir was countered more effectively after the Indian Parliament removed Articles 370 and 35A from the Constitution and declared J&K and Ladakh as Union Territories to bring them under direct Central rule in August 2019. With the arrival of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on t'e scene, India's stand against a hostile Pakistan toughened with his government declaring that there would be no talks with Pakistan unless the latter will stop the cross-border terrorism against India - this seemed to be in contrast with the tepid response of the UPA government even to 26/11.
While normalcy returned to Punjab, the terrorist violence in Kashmir touched a new high. Indian Intelligence agencies were aware of this K2 plan of the adversary. Pak ISI even asked its loyalist Hizbul Mujahideen of the Jamaat-e-Islami to help out the new group with logistic support thus revealing the frontal role of the former in upscaling terrorism in Kashmir to make up for its loss of ground in Punjab. The surrender of the terrorists after many days that the operation lasted gave a blow to the armed Khalistan movement, but significantly Pak ISI in the meanwhile opened a second front in the other border state of Jammu & Kashmir by giving a call for Jehad to intensify cross-border terrorism there.Īt the beginning of the '90s, when the terror in Punjab was fading out, Pakistan planned to replicate the success of Afghan Jehad in Kashmir and despatched the first group of Taliban Mujahideen to the valley under the dreaded Harkat-ul-Ansar. Operation Black-Thunder, which was meticulously planned and executed under the close oversight of the Centre - the head 'f IB's regional set-up at Chandigarh having been designated as the C'ntre's design'ted 'Mo'itor' of the operation, was based on two fundamental conditionalities to the effect that the seize of the Golden Temple where the top Khalistan militants had taken shelter, would not permit any armed person to enter the premises and would not allow any bullet to be fired towards the latter.
India's Intelligence set-up is fully aware that in the '80s and '90s, terrorism was pushed to a peak in the state largely because of this external input - till a determined Intelligence-based counter-terror drive by the Central and the state police forces gradually got over the threat.
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