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Centre Announces Conditional Halt To Anti-Terror Ops In J&K-Calling Ramzan Initiative A Truce Wrong: Officials


Date:- 17 May 2018


New Delhi: The Modi go­vernment took a political and security gamble on Wednes­day with a Ramzan peace ini­tiative in Jammu & Kashmir, asking security forces not to launch anti-terror opera­tions in this period, in an ef­fort to break the cycle of vio­lence and facilitate fasting in a peaceful environment.

The "people-centric" deci­sion comes with the impor­tant caveat that the armed for­ces will have the right to reta­liate if challenged by terro­rists or if such action is essential to protect lives of in­nocent people. They will also not hold back if a tip-off on the presence of a terrorist at a location is confirmed.

Senior ministry officials said calling the initiative a "ceasefire" was inaccurate, saying that such a term would indicate agreement between two parties while the Ramzan move is a unilateral "suspen­sion of operations".

These would include cor-don-and-search operations that have seen nearly 270 ter­rorists being killed in 2017 and2018, and have lately beco­me a trigger for local stone-pelting protests.

TOI had reported on May 11 that the central security es­tablishment felt that the pea­ce move suggested by an all-party meeting in J&K led by chief   minister   MehboobaMufti could be doable under certain conditions.

On Wednesday, official so­urces argued that suspension of proactive anti-terror ope­rations would not be a conces­sion to terrorists and their overground supporters and separatist leaders.

Courtesy: Times Of India, 17, May, 2018.