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Police, Army Reaches Out To Militant Families

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Shopian: In a first, the top army commander in the Kashmir Valley on Tuesday met members of around 80 families whose children have joined various militant groups in Jammu and Kashmir and urged them to bring their wards back in whatever way possible.

“I request you to pull out your children from the swamp called terrorism. I leave it up to you how you pull them out but please do it,” General-Officer-Commanding of the Srinagar-based Chinar Corps Lt Gen D P Pandey told the families at a function held at a stadium in this highly-volatile district of south Kashmir.

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This is for the first time that the senior most army officer in the valley has met in person the families whose children have picked up guns.

Inspector General of Police (Kashmir Range) Vijay Kumar told the parents that “police and security forces have been providing opportunities (to local militants) to surrender during live encounters since last year. Families are requested to convince their children (newly recruited militants) to come back”.

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The army commander cautioned the families against the “white-collar” militants roaming among the general masses and said “while the children of these while-collar militants are enjoying and studying in the rest of the country, your children are targeted by these people. Beware of them.”

“I have come to you and I want to share that there are two aspects when a youth picks up guns. The first could be that he wants to impress girls or for drugs or is not good at education or even if he is good at education, he has fascination for guns.

“The second and dangerous aspect is, whom I call, white-collar terrorist. He is one among us whose children are studying or employed only to ensure that his children are not sucked into the gun culture. However, this white-collar terrorist ensures that children of other families pick up guns,” Lt Gen Pandey said at the function, ”Jashn-e-Janoob” (Festival of South).

“I had requested for a one-to-one meeting with you all to appeal to you to pull out your children quietly from terror groups. And let me tell you that even during operation, if some boy is ready to surrender, I assure you that the army will do whatever possible, even at the cost of suffering injury, to get your child back,” he said, drawing applause from the families.

Among the families of militants present during the interaction were Abdul Hamid Najar, father of active militant Sumair Ahmad Najar; Mohammad Saleem Malik, brother of active militant Umar Ishfaq Malik; Mohammad Hussain Wani, father of active militant Naseer Ahmad Wani; Bashir Ahmad Wani, father of active militant Adil Ahmad Wani; Mohammad Khalil Wani, father of active militant Adil Hussain Wani; Mohammad Ramzan Sheikh, father of active militant Abid Ramzan Sheikh; and Farooq Ahmad Sheikh, father of active militant Sameer Ahmad Sheikh.

The rest of the family members did not wish to be identified.

The function was also attended by Victor Force GOC Maj Gen Rashim Bali and Commanding Officer of 44-Rashtriya Rifles Col A K Singh.

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