Indians have reason to worry after a national TV channel aired an audio clip on Wednesday revealing a terrorist plan to use chemical weapons against security forces in Jammu and Kashmir.
The revelation comes after a terror attack on Amarnath pilgrims that killed seven in Batingoo, near Anantnag, late on Monday.
Talks intercepted in June by Indian security agencies and accessed by News 18 point to a plot by the Kashmiri separatist group Hizbul Mujahideen to use chemical weapons to inflict heavy casualties on security forces.
In the audio clip, a Hizbul member is heard telling his Pakistani handler that the terror group is in possession of deadly weapons.
Killing four or five Indian soldiers or cops in grenade attacks is not enough, he says: the damage should be far more severe and a chemical attack is likely to occur in Jammu and Kashmir any time after Eid.
Hizbul is said to have assisted members of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba in Monday’s attack on Amarnath pilgrims. The group is headed by Syed Salahuddin, whom the US recently designated a global terrorist. Talking on a TV show in Pakistan early this month, Salahuddin said Hizbul could launch attacks on Indian civilians from anywhere.
Talking on a TV show in Pakistan early this month, Salahuddin said Hizbul could launch attacks on Indian civilians from anywhere
If Hizbul uses chemical weapons on Indian soldiers or civilians, it will draw global condemnation and push the two nuclear neighbors to the brink of war. Such an eventuality remains very remote but it cannot be ruled out.
Reports allege that Pakistan’s army has used chemical weapons internally: against Pashtuns in Waziristan and Baluch tribespeople in Baluchistan. Since these weapons have now fallen into the hands of Hizbul terrorists, the consequences may be far more severe on the Indian side.
India has limited options to avert such a situation. Peace talks with stakeholders in Jammu and Kashmir will not be countenanced by New Delhi if the separatist organization Hurriyat, which views Kashmir as an occupied territory, is to be involved.
Video clips accessed by media show Hurriyat leaders are funded by Pakistan-based terror groups fomenting trouble in Jammu and Kashmir. Reports indicate New Delhi may also soon ban Hizbul in the wake of the Anantnag killings.
Hizbul should think of the damage they will be inflicting on Kashmiris for generations. The chemical attack they are planning is self-destructive.
The terrorists caught on tape are either bluffing or damn serious. All sympathisers will turn against them if they start chemical attacks. Unlike bullets and grenades, nerve gas will spread and affect many innocent people near the scene of attack.
Nothing pass Hindu fundementalist, a exceptional student from its white master’s smear tactics. And of cause Atime let this kind of garbage publish on it news site.
I think you are understimating the violent determination of the possesed. Sure false flag is always a possibility but does Dehli really need such a crisis now? It doesn’t add up. When the blow comes it will most likely have orginated from Pakistani fedayeen. All the more reason for Islamabad to resestablish the monopoly on inter state violence quickly. Good luck.
Hizbul chief is an angry man after he was declared a global terrorist by US. The announcement came during Modi’s visit. So his group may plan something big in Kashmir. But the possibility of a chemical attack is remote.
This is an attempt at smearing Kashmiris. The veracity and authenticity of this so called audio clip has not been confirmed by anyone even in the Indian security establishment. An unsubstantiated audio clip has been used to hype a sensitive issue with inuendoes, conjectures and cliches. A quick look at the type of articles that this author writes confirms the lines on which he writes. With an anti-Muslim, pogrom-type of situation rampant in mainland India, it seems pliant, loyal journalists have been asked to come up with sensational reportage to divert international attention. Right wing Indians are on shaky ground; it is better for them to correct their moral compass rahter than to further smear their own.
It would definitely be a false flag operation by Indian intelligence RAW to malign the struggle and efforts by Kashmiris. Why would kashmiri freedom fighters jeopardize the longest freedom struggle in the world since last 70 years having lost more than 250,000 men, women and children by the hands of Indian occupation forces who raped more than 17000 Kashmiri females, killed more than 5000 arrested Kashmiris in Extra judicial killings and blinded more than 4500 kids and youth, more than 100,000 innocent Kashmiris are either missing or in the jail serving long sentences for being a Kashmiri. With these kind of struggle facing the 2nd biggest army in the world without weapons and logistics, its illogical that Kashmiris would destroy their struggle. It is totally a false flag operation that RAW did it many times before and recently in Afghanistan attacking their own consulate and blaming Pakistan to destroy the relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan. It’s time Occupation forces of India should go back to India and free Kashmir or Kashmiris will liberate their Muslim land from Hindu occupation forces.
Isnt it replica of zionist strategy in Syria. Using chemical weapons on civilians through their label rebel for their armed n funded terrorists and then blaming Assad. Think!!!. Also recall Modi’s visit to israel.
Bloody hindu extremist propaganda these indian extremist hindus trying to defame.freedom struggle. India you are really a crimnal hindu terrorist state shame