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Panels to speed up recommendations on AFSPA
Wednesday November 09, 2011 10:27:43 PM,
IANS
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Jammu: The Unified
Command Wednesday evening asked the two panels looking into the
question of revoking the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA)
to "speed up" their recommendations.
The two panels, with two Corps Commanders of the Indian Army,
Director General of Police and Principal Secretary, Home, were
constituted in September last year to suggest the areas from where
the Disturbed Area Act and AFSPA could be lifted. But the panels
were not able to finalise their recommendations.
Official sources told IANS at the conclusion of more than
three-hour-long meeting of the unified command held in the civil
secretariat and chaired by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and senior
army commanders, that it has been decided to "speed up the work
and make recommendations about the removal of AFSPA as early as
possible".
"However, no deadline has been suggested at the meeting," the
official told IANS.
Wednesday's meeting was focused on revocation of AFSPA. The chief
minister reiterated the points that he had made at a press
conference in the morning that the "Government cannot wait for the
last gun to fall silent for the removal of the AFSPA", the sources
said.
Abdullah also wanted to know why the army was being granted
protection in the areas where it has not operated for years. "I
would like to know answers to these questions," he reportedly
asked the army.
The army countered by saying that "terrorism was not
area-specific". Its commanders put forth the point of the terror
infrastructure that is in place and Pakistan and where terrorists
are being trained and sent to Jammu and Kashmir for subversion and
violence.
"Let Pakistan dismantle its terror infrastructure first and the
terrorism is like a contagious disease which spreads fast, without
giving notice, that has been the lesson of the past," one of the
army commanders is reported to have argued.
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