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There is a need for a law linking terrorism with organised crime, especially in the context of Jammu & Kashmir, says a retired senior police officer.
"There is need for a central law to effectively tackle terrorism, particularly organised crime as an adjunct of terrorism," Nikhil Kumar wrote in The Hindustan Times on Friday.
Kumar, who retired as director general of the elite National Security Guards recently, also said the troops fighting terrorists in Jammu & Kashmir needed a break to regroup.
"The finest forces need relief and rest," he said. "The Israelis too organise relief for their troops. But such has been the scenario this past decade that the security forces in [Jammu & Kashmir] have worked continuously for long periods without relief, and need relief to ensure they remain fresh and motivated.
"The security forces have, over the years, sustained heavy loss of life and limb," said Kumar, a former Delhi police chief. "They have done a commendable job despite working under tremendous pressure without a break."
"Modern-day terror," he wrote, "follows the old Chinese dictum, 'Kill one, frighten 10,000', in the fond, but vain, hope that it will bleed India into appearing weak and ineffectual -- the classic credo of terrorism."
Kumar was referring to the stepped up terrorist strikes in Jammu & Kashmir, where insurgents shot dead 10 passengers at the railway station in Jammu, the state's winter capital, this week.
"The happenings in Jammu & Kashmir do not merely impinge on the law-and-order situation in that state," he said. "The happenings there affect the nation's internal security as much as any act of external aggression."
The secessionist insurgency in Kashmir has claimed more than 25,000 lives since 1989.
Indo-Asian News Service
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