ISI plans ‘no-fly’ zone
in Kashmir
ISI plans ‘no-fly’ zone in
Kashmir
Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence has chalked out a new
11-point
strategy, including establishing a "no-fly zone" within
the Kashmir region,
to step up militancy in Jammu and Kashmir.
Intelligence sources said this decision was taken during a meeting
held in
Pakistan-Occupied Ka-shmir in the last week of March. It was
attended by
Pakistan Army regulars, ISI officials and Kashmiri militant
outfits,
including the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, Hezb-ul-Mujahideen and Al Badr.
The new strategy has been conveyed to all the militant groups
operating in
Kashmir.
The ISI has directed the terrorists to create "no-fly
zones" in the Kashmir
region to keep Indian Air Force fighters and helicopters out of
that
airspace, intelligence sources said. Any Indian aircraft violating
the
"no-fly zone" would be shot down by anti-aircraft guns,
the new strategy
reveals.
According to the new plan, the ISI will provide arms and
ammunition and
long-range guns and mortar as per geographical area requirements.
The ISI is
now paying a lot of attention to the collection of information
about the
Indian security forces — on deployment, operation, modus
operandi and
movements, intelligence agencies sources said. The militants have
been asked
to send intelligence inputs to their high command immediately.
The ISI has decided to update the mode of training provided to
terrorists in
various parts of Pakistan on the basis of intelligence inputs on
the modus
operandi of the Indian security forces so that there is always a
surprise
element in their attacks, sources said. The 11-point strategy
advises the
militants to be flexible and change their operational strategy to
suit the
situation.
Now that security around Army installations has been beefed up,
the
militants have been directed that "all actions should be far
from built-up
areas." Apart from dwelling upon new ways for the militant
outfits to add
more teeth to their firepower, the ISI has also prescribed fresh
guidelines
to the militants to restrict themselves to Islamic religious
decorum in
their day-to-day functioning. During talks and lectures, they have
to adopt
Islamic philosophy and also keep a watch on the activities of
other Islamic
institutions, reads one of the 11 instructions forwarded to
Kashmiri
terrorists.
The militants have been also asked to renew their bid to win the
sympathy of
the Kashmiri Muslims. The militants had lost acceptance among
Kashmiris to a
great extent ever since normalcy was restored in the Valley. All
the
militants have to establish good and lasting relations with the
"Islamic
people of Jammu and Kashmir," says the new strategy. It adds
that during
action against Indian forces, all principles mentioned in Islamic
Jihad
should be remembered and applied.
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