Pakistan is responsible for targeted killings in Jammu and Kashmir: Central Intelligence Agencies
New Delhi: Amid rising targeted killings in Kashmir, the Central Intelligence Agencies (IB) of India blamed Pakistan for the escalating violence in the Kashmir valley. A senior official of IB said, “Perpetrators of violence are sitting across the border in Pakistan. Violence levels might have increased in Kashmir but it is not jihad. It is being done by some desperate elements,”
Officials also told Home Minister Amit Shah that there is no evidence to suggest the presence of the Taliban in the Kashmir valley. This is significant as the Narendra Modi government started its engagement with the Taliban just earlier this week.
Earlier in the day, three rounds of meetings were held in the North Block. In the first round, intelligence heads of both internal and external agencies — Director of the Intelligence Bureau Arvind Kumar, and the chief of Research and Analysis Wing Samant Goel — along with Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Manoj Sinha and Director General of Police Dilbagh Singh briefed the Home Minister about the steps being taken to break the cycle of violence.
In fact, in the second round of the meeting, the focus was entirely on the safety of the Amarnath yatra. It was unanimously decided that Kashmiri Pandits would be moved to safer locations but not out of Kashmir.
(Vinayak)
