An eye-witness account of *militants* crossing into J&K
Courtesy Radha Rajan…enjoy.
This afternoon one of the CNN-IBN news report is that over a 100 militants have ’slipped/slinked/sneaked’ into J&K . They may be heading towards Bandepura. I decided to take off to J&K pronto and do my CNN-IBN citizen journalist sleuthing.
***** Report BEGINS *****
Hi, i am now standing with Muhammad Maqbool Malik who first told CNN IBN about the infiltration. Let me pan my camera for the stunning visuals.
Malik saheb, can you please us what is this thing over which we are standing?
This is the watch tower of the J&K police to watch the infiltration taking place.
I see. when was this built?
Immediately after the Kargil war.
Let me pan my camera downwards. Malik saheb, this line that we see painted this bright and beautiful luminiscent pink, what is this?
Oh, that is the LoC. It is to help the militants know that when they step across the pink line, they have successfully infiltrated.
And this tower it is a remarkable piece of enginering, malik tells me. malik saheb can you tell us what is remarkable about this watch tower?
Yes, remember madam that at the time of the Kargil war, Bill clinton told Vajpayee our army can do anything to retreive our peaks without crossing the LoC. Well this tower has been built right on the LoC so that we detect infiltration the moment it is happening. The genius who built the tower built it faithful to Clinton’s diktat. If you spit from the tower, the spit falls into pakistan. ut the tower reains faithfully inside the LoC.
Remarkable. How did he manage that?
Well Madam after every foot of the tower was completed we would bring in a man on top and make him spit. This way we ensured till the end that the spit always fell on the other side of the LoC while at the same time we are as close as we can get to the LoC.
You are in J&K. What do you do once you sight infiltrators.
We inform CNN-IBN immediately even if it is the middle of the night.
But why dont you send them back, or arrest them or kill them immediately.
That is not our job madam,. that is the job of the Indian army. Our job is only to tell CNN-IBN about the infiltration. Now look to your right Madam, can you see there, beyond that tree, a long line standing on the Pakistani side of the LoC?
Yes, let me pan my camera again. parul, can you see the long line infiltratorswaiting to slip in? they are all having their cup of tea now. malik Saheb tells me that once they finish their cupps they will start to cross the pink line,
Madam, see they have begun and see how they are all walking ina single file and madam look, they are now breaking up into three.
Malik saheb why are they breaking up into three?
One line goes to Baramulla, another to Kupwara and the third to Hyderabad.
***** Report ENDS *****
P.S. By the way, has anyone noticed how terrorists are now called “militants”?
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