The security situation in Jammu and Kashmir has improved post-abrogation of Article 370 from the then state in August 2019, as the number of terrorism-related incidents and terrorists has significantly reduced. This was what a report claimed here.
According to the report, the terror incidents in J&K were 417 in 2018 which came down to 229 in 2021, while the number of terrorists operating in Kashmir has been reduced to below 100.
“Scrapping of Article 370, a temporary provision in the Constitution, has proven to be a major step towards restoring peace and normalcy in the erstwhile princely state,” reads the report.
The government’s move on August 5, 2019, helped J-K move towards peace after 30 long years of turmoil in the Himalayan region.
“Terrorism-related incidents witnessing almost a 50 per cent decline in three years are ample proof of the fact that J&K’s special status had sown the seeds of discord and was responsible for separatism and sedition becoming a part of J-K’s culture,” the report said.
The Centre, in the past 3 years, has taken steps to ensure that terrorists and their sponsors are given a befitting reply. The security forces are putting in efforts to shatter the ecosystem of terrorists and end terrorism in J&K.
“During the past three years, Kashmir has not witnessed any shutdown, stone-pelting incidents or street protests. Separatists and their henchmen, who used to dance to the tunes of Pakistan, have been cut to size,” the report observed.
Recently, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Nityanand Rai, informed Parliament that 14 people belonging to minorities including 3 Kashmiri Pandits, were killed in terrorist incidents in Jammu and Kashmir this year till November 30.
However, he added that no migration of Kashmiri Pandits from Kashmir has taken place in the past five years.
It is learnt that aroubnd 5,000 Kashmiri Pandits are working in the Valley under the Prime Minister’s Development Package.
Notably in 2021 also, terrorists made multiple attempts to chase the members of the minority communities from Kashmir by targeting teachers, non-local labourers, street vendors and others. But their attempts were foiled as the security forces acted swiftly and eliminated most of the terrorists who were involved in carrying out the attacks against innocent civilians.