Centre says Army only a deterrent
The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) on Wednesday decided to use the Army as a “deterrent” in the Kashmir Valley to prevent the law and order situation from spiralling out of control. Government sources said the security forces will ensure strict enforcement of curfew till such time the miscreants are arrested.
The CCS, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, reviewed the situation following the Centre’s decision to deploy the Army. The meeting decided that the Army would be used in “peripheral” areas and not for “crowd control” in congested areas. However, the local administration would decide where it is to be deployed.
Home minister P. Chidambaram, defence minister A.K. Antony, Cabinet Secretary K.M. Chandrashekar, NSA Shivshankar Menon, home secretary G.K. Pillai, and defence secretary Pradeep Kumar attended the CCS meeting. Mr Pillai then flew to Srinagar to hold a series of meetings with CM Omar Abdullah and senior government functionaries and Army and security force officials. CM Omar Abdullah spoke to PM Manmohan Singh on the phone.
Late Wednesday night separatist slogans reverberated from mosque loudspeakers in some parts of Srinagar and gunshots were heard in the Batmaloo-Bemina corridor. It was not immediately known who fired at whom.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Army could be seen staging a flag march along the road from Batamaloo to Dal Lake (gate). Soldiers in machine-gun-mounted vehicles drove through various Srinagar localities.
Srinagar and some other Valley towns remained under strict curfew.
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It is a very pathetic
Shyam Chhabra
08 Jul 2010 - 22:07
It is a very pathetic condition that we have to deploy army to normalise any city. Where our government is lacking in tackling the terrorist ? Why we have to use the force to curb this menace ? Why we cannot have a peaceful solution so that the terrorism should be discouraged and should not grow to new levels day by day. It appears that the terrorism is progressing at a fast pace and the up coming generation would have some people who would dream of becoming the most horrible and terror creating personalities. There would be Who's who in the terrorist world, the terrorist can have their own country one day where the best quality of terrorist would be the requirment to lead the country. No doubt that these terrorists are also very able leaders as a human being but their direction is on different line and their perception to achive any thing is of different angle. These terrorists think what I understand that our political system is corrupt and politicians are eating out the resources and money of this country and this is also true to a great extent. So to correct them first our system has also to be aligned properly and an understanding should be developed and a common man should not suffer because of corruption on politics or the frustration of extremists over these politicians.
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