{"id":16448,"date":"2019-02-04T18:18:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T12:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=16448"},"modified":"2019-02-04T18:18:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T12:48:47","slug":"191-local-youth-joined-militancy-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=16448","title":{"rendered":"\u2018191 Local Youth Joined Militancy In 2018\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>JAMMU \u2014<\/i><\/strong><i> As many as 191 local youth joined various militant outfits in Jammu and Kashmir in 2018, 65 more than 2017, a senor Army official said Monday.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The new recruits mostly hailed from the restive south Kashmir region, he added.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;As many as 191 Kashmiri youths joined militancy in 2018,&#8221; the official told PTI.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>In 2017, 126 locals had joined militant ranks, he said.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>South Kashmir districts &#8212; Pulwama, Shopian, Kulgam and Anantnag &#8212; have become a breeding ground for militants with many youths joining their rank and file, the officer said.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Outfits like the Hizbul Mujahideen and the Lashker-e- Taiba find more recruits, he said.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The official said out of the 191 recruits in 2018, 139 alone hailed from south Kashmir. The highest &#8212; 59 &#8212; was from Pulwama, he added.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>In 2016, the official said, 88 Kashmiri youths had joined militancy.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Since 2016, there has been a constant rise in the number of youths joining militancy, he added.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>As many as 66 youths joined militancy in Kashmir in 2015 and 53 in 2014.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>In 2010, 54 youths had joined militancy, while in 2011 the number came down to 23. It further dipped to 21 in 2012 and 16 in 2013, the official said.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The data is based on technical and human intelligence, besides interrogation reports of militants arrested during various counter-insurgency operations in the valley, he added.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Although more youths were attracted towards militancy in 2018, state forces killed 257 militants this year.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>As many as 257 militants were killed across Jammu and Kashmir in 2018, Director General of Police Dilbagh Singh had said last month, asserting that counter-insurgency operations would continue in 2019 with major focus on strengthening border and hinterland security.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAMMU \u2014 As many as 191 local youth joined various militant outfits in Jammu and Kashmir in 2018, 65 more than 2017, a senor Army official said Monday. The new recruits mostly hailed from the restive south Kashmir region, he added. &#8220;As many as 191 Kashmiri youths joined militancy in 2018,&#8221; the official told PTI. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16448","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=16448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}