Jammu and Kashmir security forces on Wednesday achieved a major success when they killed Ansar Gazwat ul Hind (AGH) Burhan Koka and two of his associates at Melhoora in south Kashmir’s Shopian district. Instead of usual practice of claiming ‘victory’ or ‘success’ followed with a press conference or a byte, the J&K Police released a statement which shared just the basic information that “in the ensuing encounter, 3 terrorists were killed. The identification of killed terrorists is being ascertained.”
The strategic move to stop recruitment is to deny the terrorist publicity by naming them or their tanzeem (organisation). The ensures that the terrorist remains unidentified. The J&K Police is now tightening screws to make sure that such leaks are fixed even at the local level. The Army and CRPF are also on board with this strategy. “Our challenge is to stop recruitment of new militants. So we have to adopt new strategies. For any ordinary militant, why should the corps commander or DGP do a press conference? One of effective tool is to starve terror groups of publicity they seek,” a senior officer in the J&K Police told India Today.
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