Monday, January 17, 2005

terror comes to standstill

Wounded ISI looking for survival in Reasi-Mahore
ABHISHEK
JAMMU, Jan 17—
Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has received a massive jolt in Reasi-Mahore areas after the laying off arms by its top launching commander. Surrendered, Mohd Kalu, was an important cog of ISI’s network and a key operative of Harkat-ul-Mujahidin outfit.
An expert guide, Kalu, intelligence sources revealed, had facilitated exfilteration of over 150 youths to PoK. "But since Kalu’s surrender on December 2, last year, the exfiltration from Budhal, Chasana, Kotranka, Reasi, Gool and Mahore areas has come to a stand still," source said.
As fallout of his surrender, source said, "Pak based terror organizations have been forced to shift their hideouts." They (terrorists) are being given new communication codes so that could not get intercepted by security agencies of India, source disclosed. An expert guide and motivator, "Kalu had won the loyalty of his mentors across the border, by outfoxing the security forces time and again."
Talking to this reporter, Mohd Kalu, (code name Shabir Ghaznavi) admitted that he took around 150 boys across the border. "My job as the launching commander was to get youth across and back as trained terrorists from camps in Pakistan."
Over why he had surrendered, he said, "I was fed up with constant running around and with fear of death." "I had lost faith in the cause upheld by the Pak sponsored terrorists", he revealed, stating, most of the foreign militants "are hardened criminals, who indulge in rape, molestation and pillage in our land."
Further, "this is not Jehad," admits Kalu, once a feared terror operative and top operations man of the terror network.
Admitting there has been a perceptible decrease in the movement of terrorists across the border particularly in the Reasi-Mahore area, SP Reasi Jagdish Lal Sharma said, "Kalu’s surrender has broken the back of militancy in the area."
Meanwhile, Pawan Parihar, Dy SP, Reasi said, "From only one surrender each in 2001 and 2002, the number has increased to 16 in 2004." In the first week of January 2005 two more gave up arms, he added.
Surrender of Kalu and the fencing on the border has proved to be a major setback to the terrorists, SP Sharma claims.

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