ISI DIVIDES KASHMIR BETWEEN LET AND JAISH

The Pakistani intelligence agency, the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), which is the brain behind all the terrorist organisations working in the Kashmir valley, is devising new ways to tackle the increased killing of terrorists by Indian security forces. As part of its new strategy, it has asked the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba ( LeT) and the Hizbul Mujahideen to focus on North Kashmir, while leaving South Kashmir to the more “aggressive” Jaish-e-Mohammad, which is almost entirely made up of foreign mercenaries. The Jaish terrorists are considered to be “stronger” than the local youths who comprise the Lashkar and Hizbul.

It is the Lashkar and Hizbul recruits who are more active in South Kashmir. But they have been asked to move to North Kashmir, where the chances of the locals identifying them or sharing with the security forces information about their hideouts, are quite low. “As per the ISI’s assessment, the encounters that have killed 150 plus terrorists this year—most of these took place in South Kashmir— happened because the locals easily identified the homegrown terrorists and shared their whereabouts with the security forces. The locals do not know the Jaish terrorists, who are all Pakistanis. The Jaish terrorists are also more radicalised than the local youths and will go to any lengths to achieve their objectives. The Jaish terrorists are also better armed,” an official source said. This includes silencing the local population by force.

According to the source, the ISI plans to use the Jaish to attack the camps of the security forces by carrying out fidayeen (suicide) attacks, with the intention to put the security forces on the back-foot and create chaos, fear and confusion. “If even two or three incidents of