100% drop in violations since ceasefire pact resumed: J&K DGP

Srinagar, March 20

Jammu and Kashmir DGP Dilbag Singh said on Saturday that there has been a 100 per cent drop in the ceasefire violations since the ceasefire agreement was resumed by India and Pakistan last month and no fresh cases of infiltration have been reported.

He was talking to reporters on the sidelines of the inauguration of Under-19 T20 Zonal- level Cricket Tournament at SK Cricket Stadium in Srinagar.

“Infiltration has been checked to a great extent, our security grid has been doing a good job all through the year,” he said. “There has been a 100 per cent drop in the cases of ceasefire violations along the borders after the resumption of ceasefire agreement.” He said Pakistan was using drones to send weapons into J&K. In 2020, weapons seized were double compared to the previous year. A total of 475 weapons were seized in 2020, including pistols, AK rifles, and M4 US rifles.

He said a large number of youth have shunned the path of violence and whatever little militant activity is seen in Srinagar city and some other areas will also come down.

He said religious leaders, social leaders and people from the media have to put their heads together to see that the youth does not go on the path of violence and does not play with their lives.

“We have been able to bring back around three dozen boys who had joined militancy, they have come back and joined their families,” he said. — Agencies

M4 duplicates made in Pak, Afghanistan

• J&K police chief Dilbagh Singh claimed that American assault rifle M4, which was among the seized weapons in the union territory recently, was being illegally manufactured somewhere in Pakistan or Afghanistan.
• He said, “The weapons seized last year was huge, incomparable to what we have seized in previous years. In all, there were 475 weapons seized last year.
• “M4 actually is an American rifle but there are duplicates manufactured in Pakistan or Afghanistan,” he claimed.

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