{"id":14083,"date":"2019-01-02T20:51:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T15:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=14083"},"modified":"2019-01-02T20:51:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T15:21:33","slug":"killing-militants-not-something-worth-celebrating-dgp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=14083","title":{"rendered":"Killing Militants Not Something Worth Celebrating: DGP"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Srinagar<\/b><\/i>:<\/i><\/span> <\/i><\/span>The number of militants killed last year was not something to be celebrated as a success, the Jammu and Kashmir police chief said on Wednesday, even as he praised government forces for minimizing \u201ccollateral damage\u201d by exercising \u201cmaximum restraint\u201d during counter-insurgency operations.<\/i><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Addressing a press conference in Srinagar, Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbagh Singh said the police was \u201cpained\u201d to see a spike in local youth joining militancy and getting killed in encounters in 2018, Kashmir\u2019s bloodiest year in a decade. Without naming Pakistan, he slammed the country for \u201cinciting Kashmiri youth to violence.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u201c2018 was good as the law and order situation remained peaceful to a large extent but incidents of violence saw a spike due to every effort of our neighbouring country to incite youngsters and push them towards militancy besides infiltration,\u201d Singh said.<\/i><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

However, he said, the killing of militants in gunfights with forces was not something that should be celebrated.<\/i><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cIt wouldn\u2019t be right to call these killings as a success. Statistically speaking, you can say that it has been a successful year but in terms of levels of violence, the situation was very bleak. Whether it is the killing of militants, civilians or forces\u2019 personnel, any loss of life is disturbing,\u201d he said. <\/i><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

The police chief also praised government forces for showing \u201cmaximum restraint\u201d during anti-insurgency operations, saying there was no \u201ccollateral damage\u201d in 83 of 97 such operations.<\/i><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cDuring some encounters people got too close and clashed with forces, resulting in loss of lives,\u201d he said.<\/i><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cI once again appeal to the youth that life is very precious and it should not end like this,\u201d he said.<\/i><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

The DGP also termed as \u201cencouraging\u201d the high number of aspirants showing up for police recruitment rallies and participating in sports, cultural and educational activities.<\/i><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Commenting on the recent Jamia Masjid controversy DGP Singh said that ISIS outfit is not much in the valley, however, a section of youth is being radicalized.<\/i><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cIn the past also, carrying those (IS) flags and displaying them publicly to show that there is a very large presence of such elements\u2026we would again say that presence (of IS) is not that big but the fact that people are being radicalized on those lines that can\u2019t be denied,\u201d Singh said while addressing a news conference in Srinagar.<\/i><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

He said that some elements were making serious efforts to radicalize a section of the youth \u201cto the extent possible\u201d.<\/i><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cKashmir civil society has been as such an open society, a very secular kind of culture where we extend due respect to our places of worship. Such efforts (of radicalization) had been made at various quarters and their expression has been seen in the kind of activities we saw other day (at Jamia Masjid),\u201d said Singh.<\/i><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

He said that 2006 road accidents related cases were also registered during the year, in which 272 people died. In 225 cases people died in 4 wheelers, 46 in two-wheelers, and one in a three-wheeler. “2551 people have sustained injuries”. He said that there were 143 domestic cases registered, in which 89 cases were closed up. 762 burglary cases were also registered”. (GNS<\/i>)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Praises govt forces for ‘restraint’ Srinagar: The number of militants killed last year was not something to be celebrated as a success, the Jammu and Kashmir police chief said on Wednesday, even as he praised government forces for minimizing \u201ccollateral damage\u201d by exercising \u201cmaximum restraint\u201d during counter-insurgency operations. Addressing a press conference in Srinagar, Director […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}