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Indian Army chief rejects 'hudna'
The Indian Army does not plan a ceasefire with militants in Jammu and Kashmir but is ready to encourage them to give up arms, said Indian Army chief Gen JJ Singh on Thursday. "There is no such idea," said Singh when asked by reporters about the possibility of a ceasefire in Kashmir. "The army is ready to help those Kashmiri youth who want to shun violence," he said.There have been persistent calls for a truce with militants by Kashmir state politicians following progress in an 18-month old peace process between India and Pakistan. The Indian Army entered a ceasefire with militant groups in July 2000 that lasted two weeks. The army followed the aborted agreement with a unilateral halt to operations in November 2000 that lasted six months. In November 2004, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced a unilateral withdrawal of several thousand troops from Kashmir. Posted by: Fred 2005-06-10 |
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