Indian security agencies seem to have become wiser post the brutal attack and mutilation of Indian soldiers along the Line of Control as they have already started putting in place an elaborate blueprint for deployment of security personnel in the Kashmir Valley during the coming summer season. The move, highly-placed government sources revealed, has also been necessitated by some specific intelligence inputs that Pakistani Army and the ISI has already started preparing to mount further pressure in India by escalating the level of violence in the Valley during summer.
“In fact, the inputs suggest that the ISI now wants to hit our security forces by taking violence to an unprecedented levels in the Valley as last two years have been relatively good for us,” a senior security official said.
The issue will be finalised by the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) once the ministries of home affairs and defence are ready with their deployment pattern. In wake of the recent incidents along the LoC, the government clearly is in no mood to take any chances and has already instructed security forces to be ready with an enhanced deployment plan much ahead of March when summer starts setting in the Valley.
Intelligence inputs suggest that having diverted the attention of security forces towards the LoC and the International Border in Jammu and Kashmir, the ISI is now all set to give militancy in the Valley a further push. With as many as 250 militants waiting at the five launch pads in Pooch sector itself the security forces have already started gearing up for the challenge.
Indian agencies have reason to believe that infiltration bids will see a sharp increase from mid-February again once passes start opening up. “By escalating violence in Kashmir, the ISI will also try and justify the mutilation of Indian soldiers saying these too had been carried out by the jehadi groups,” the official added.
The security forces will also be monitoring the situation closely in and around Srinagar and if required the BSF will once again be rushed there at short notice. In wake of the improved security scenario in the Valley, BSF had been replaced by the CRPF in Srinagar.