{"id":39132,"date":"2021-07-24T20:27:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T14:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=39132"},"modified":"2021-07-24T20:27:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T14:57:25","slug":"no-threat-of-taliban-entering-kashmir-defence-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=39132","title":{"rendered":"No threat of Taliban entering Kashmir: Defence official\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:14pt; line-height:22.9693px; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><b><em>SRINAGAR, JULY 24:<\/em><\/b><span><b><em> <\/em><\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt; line-height:22.9693px; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><em>There is no immediate threat of the Taliban moving to Kashmir, but there are fears that the overall Afghan situation could increase Pakistan-based Militant groups operating in Kashmir, a Defence official said, The Hindu reported.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0); font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; text-decoration-thickness:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-color:initial; margin:0in0in10pt; line-height:18.0473px; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; text-align:left;\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt; line-height:22.9693px; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><em> \u201cWhat could happen is that Pakistan-based Militants may get excited by the way out of US forces in Afghanistan and the strengthening of the Taliban. They can do something with confidence,\u201d said a senior defense official. &#8220;In the next 4-5 years, we don&#8217;t see any Taliban coming,&#8221; the official said.<\/em><\/span><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0); font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; text-decoration-thickness:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-color:initial; margin:0in0in10pt; line-height:18.0473px; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; text-align:left;\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt; line-height:22.9693px; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><em>With US forces almost pulling out of Afghanistan, the Taliban have made great strides and gained new ground in the past few weeks, raising fears of their possible influx into Kashmir.<\/em><\/span><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0); font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; text-decoration-thickness:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-color:initial; margin:0in0in10pt; line-height:18.0473px; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; text-align:left;\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt; line-height:22.9693px; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><em>As far as counter-insurgency operations in Kashmir are concerned, India is very strong along the Line of Control (LoC), the official said, adding, &#8220;be it army, sensors or drones, we have the LoC fully covered.&#8221;<\/em><span><b><em> <\/em><\/b><\/span><b><em>(PTK)<\/em><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SRINAGAR, JULY 24: There is no immediate threat of the Taliban moving to Kashmir, but there are fears that the overall Afghan situation could increase Pakistan-based Militant groups operating in Kashmir, a Defence official said, The Hindu reported. \u201cWhat could happen is that Pakistan-based Militants may get excited by the way out of US forces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39132","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\/39132","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=39132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39132\/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=39132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}