Belying the Centre’s claims that shredding Articles 370 and 35- A would assist end terrorism in the freshly minted Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir, the number of terrorists eliminated in operations in the first 5 months of 2019 and 2020 has shown just a little dip. Always on the cards, but Donald Trump supplied a fast trigger
Seventy-eight terrorists were killed in January-May this year as opposed to 101 being killed in the exact same duration in 2019.
Stopping recruitment
J&K Director General of Cops Dilbag Singh, however, informed The Hindu that the number of new recruits signing up with terrorist ranks had been at a record low this year and the authorities was engaging with families and communities to wean them away from militancy.
