Srinagar, Dec 31 (UNI): Terming the funeral of separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani as the ‘biggest challenge’ of 2021, Kashmir IGP Vijay Kumar on Friday said next year’s challenge would be to deal with the “hybrid” militants.
He said 25 “hybrid militants have been identified who would be categorised soon.
“The challenge is a ‘hybrid’ terrorist. We have coined this name in January 2021 and Google has accepted it. There is no record about them in police stations or with any sister agency. Even parents have no idea about them. We are now identifying them. Their digital equipment is analyzed and we get to know about him. The challenge next year would be these hybrid terrorists,” Kumar said at a press conference in Srinagar.
He said it was observed that through digital equipment young boys carry out attacks on police men and security forces. “These boys aren’t categorized anywhere neither do we have their photographs in police stations,” the IGP said.
The IGP Kashmir said that the second major challenge will be to prevent policemen from becoming soft targets.
IGP said the other priority would be neutralizing the foreign militants.
“Neutralization of foreign Terrorists and demolition of terror infrastructure would the priority in 2022,” he said.
Kumar said as of now there are total 168 active militants in the valley and among them 83 are foreigners and 85 are locals
“The active strength of terrorists in north Kashmir is 65, in central Kashmir, there are 16 terrorists and in south Kashmir, there are 87 terrorists,” he said.
