'800 militants waiting to cross over from PoK', Islam,Terrorism and Jihad, NewAgeIslam.com

Islam,Terrorism and Jihad

'800 militants waiting to cross over from PoK'

They are now re-drawing the overall strategy to deal with the situation and honing tactics at the sector level in the backdrop of inputs that more than 800 terrorists are waiting to infiltrate into India from across the LoC and International Border, sources said here on Wednesday.Reports also point out that the terrorist infrastructure was intact in PoK and about 40 terrorist training camps were running there, besides in the northern areas and the mainland. The ISI and Pakistan Army are actively supporting them and providing the jihadis with launch pads close to the LoC and the International Border for sneaking into the border State.The security establishment is concerned that the Pakistan Army is now resorting to its old tactic of firing at the Indian posts as a cover for terrorists to infiltrate and the Jammu incident was one such example.Pakistan had honoured the mutually-agreed ceasefire on the 750-km-long LoC for the last four years. It, however, violated the ceasefire in April this year and 30 incidents of ceasefire violation have so far taken place, though the Indian troops are exercising the maximum restraint. The violations were reported to the Pakistani authorities through established channels of communication but little came out of it, sources said.Meanwhile, Minister of State for Defence MM Pallam Raju said here on Wednesday that forces inimical to India were trying to disrupt the forthcoming elections in Jammu and Kashmir.

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Defending the ideology, Islam and Politics, NewAgeISlam.com

Islam and Politics

Defending the ideology

By Ayesha Siddiqa

Does the ideology then include the desires and aspirations of ethnic minorities like the Baloch, Sindhis, Mohajirs, Seraiki, Pakhtun and others who also want to be part of it but instead feel deprived? Or is it that we will always have to employ the power of the bullet in defence of this amorphous ideology as happened in the 1970s in East Pakistan and Balochistan or in the 1980s and 1990s in Sindh or more recently again in Balochistan?

The main issue with handing over the defence of ideology to any state bureaucracy is that the latter tends to define ideology in bureaucratic terms which means something that can be imagined and implemented easily. The nation has drifted from being a country for Muslims to one which is supposed to defend a larger religious ideology. Such conceptualisation becomes doubly problematic for both the nation and its armed forces that have been dragged over the years into defending a larger than life ideology.

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