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Abdullah, who had meetings with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister P Chidambaram here yesterday, said he had raised the issue of withdrawal of the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in a phased manner.
Reorganisation of security forces figured during his meetings, said Omar.
On the issue of withdrawal of CRPF from the state, he said the J and K police "is not immediately ready" to fill all the gaps. "The CRPF withdrawal has to be as per a plan" and simultaneously the state police will have to gear up to be at the forefront of the anti-militancy operations.
"We have over 70 battalions of the CRPF and the state police’s strength is not even one-third of it. Five battalions of the state police which includes India Reserve Police are undergoing training. So any rash decision in this aspect can be detrimental to state’s security, he said.
"A lot is required to be done in terms of augmenting the numbers of J and K police, upgrading their equipment and improving their levels of training," he said.
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Sure, let us have a policeman outside every household in kashmir, this way they be a proud khaki nation and then let us hope they will learn to live peacefully. Any taker?
a very good thaught. why did'nt anyone think of it before i,e, to have a police-man stationed outside every house. Everyone will be a proud Kashmiri and a policeman at the same time. Let us hope then they will learn to live like honest nation.
He is very much correct that such type of decision has to be taken very carefully on the basis of ground realities and past history without the influence of any emotional blackmailing. Because, one mistake was committed by the King of Kashmir of refusing to merge with India and not only Kashmir’s but all nation is paying prize of it. One cannot imagine the loss of revenue and life because of one wrong decision and not for correcting it by strong hand considering national interest first instead of any religion.