02-28-2008, 11:34 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Only 450 terrorists left in Jammu-Kashmir</b>
Feb 28, 2008
Srinagar: It's official. There are only around 450 terrorists operating in Kashmir, according to the state police.
Last year the police, paramilitary and army eliminated more than 460 terrorists and that success has carried over to 2008, with dozens of terrorists being killed in gun-battles across Kashmir in the last two months.
Says DGP, Kuldeep Khuda, "Recently, it was said that there are only 450 terrorists active in Kashmir. Do you think so? We can't count them on fingers but yes their presence is this much. Does it include the listed and non-listed terrorists? Absolutely.''
Police say the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, once a formidable outfit with thousands of followers, has been dented badly.
"We have killed the top leadership of the outfit including its financial chief and a number of divisional and district commanders. Their number is now between 130-160 and they are losing cadres," says IGP, Kashmir, S M Sahia.
<b>Police attribute the successes to the renewed intelligence grid and more information from local people.</b> Nearly nine people were killed in terrorist violence everyday in the 90s but that figure has now come to down to two.
Terrorist outfits, however, insist that they are still very much in business, and say dwindling numbers won't affect their morale.
It took police and security forces more than 17 years of relentless battle to bring down the number of terrorists from thousands to a few hundred.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<b>Great work down by the Indian security forces in protecting the people and the nation by eliminating the terrorists.
The Nation salutes them.</b>
Feb 28, 2008
Srinagar: It's official. There are only around 450 terrorists operating in Kashmir, according to the state police.
Last year the police, paramilitary and army eliminated more than 460 terrorists and that success has carried over to 2008, with dozens of terrorists being killed in gun-battles across Kashmir in the last two months.
Says DGP, Kuldeep Khuda, "Recently, it was said that there are only 450 terrorists active in Kashmir. Do you think so? We can't count them on fingers but yes their presence is this much. Does it include the listed and non-listed terrorists? Absolutely.''
Police say the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, once a formidable outfit with thousands of followers, has been dented badly.
"We have killed the top leadership of the outfit including its financial chief and a number of divisional and district commanders. Their number is now between 130-160 and they are losing cadres," says IGP, Kashmir, S M Sahia.
<b>Police attribute the successes to the renewed intelligence grid and more information from local people.</b> Nearly nine people were killed in terrorist violence everyday in the 90s but that figure has now come to down to two.
Terrorist outfits, however, insist that they are still very much in business, and say dwindling numbers won't affect their morale.
It took police and security forces more than 17 years of relentless battle to bring down the number of terrorists from thousands to a few hundred.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<b>Great work down by the Indian security forces in protecting the people and the nation by eliminating the terrorists.
The Nation salutes them.</b>