JKNPP demands probe into camp attack, white paper on terrorism

The Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) today demanded a probe into a terror attack on a BSF camp near the Srinagar airport as well as a white paper on militant activities in the Kashmir Valley.

JKNPP chairman and former minister Harsh Dev Singh blamed the Central and the state governments for what he called "a rise in terror incidents" in the Valley.

"We demand a white paper from the state and Central governments indicating the details of terror attacks, border incursions and ceasefire violations together with details of casualties of civilians as well as armed forces during the last three years," Singh told reporters here.
 

He condemned the terror attack on the BSF camp and sought an enquiry on how militants could enter a high security zone.

Expressing concern over the incidents of violence, he said the Central and the state governments had failed to keep their election promises.

He also lamented the "increasing misadventures from across the border" and said the people were fast losing faith in the ability of the governments to protect them.

He held both the governments responsible for what it called the gradual deterioration in the law and order situation and increase in terror incidents as well as their failure to protect the lives and property of border dwellers in the last three years.

He said border-dwellers were most affected by Pakistan's onslaughts and alleged that "the elected representatives remain cocooned and sanitised in their own world with occasional photo-ops and statements of Pakistan condemnations".

He condemned the killing of two children in border firing in the Poonch sector yesterday by Pakistan forces and sought an adequate ex-gratia for the affected families.

He also condemned the recent killing of a constable by the militants in his house in Kashmir and said this proves militants have easy access to "so-called safer areas".

Singh reminded the national and the state BJP leaders of their slogans against militancy and regretted that these "evaporated in thin air" after the party came to power.