{"id":33903,"date":"2018-10-30T14:53:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T09:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33903"},"modified":"2018-10-30T14:53:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T09:23:15","slug":"new-jk-surrender-policy-to-target-local-militants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-jk-surrender-policy-to-target-local-militants\/","title":{"rendered":"New J&#038;K surrender policy to target local militants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/jk-police-army-offer-surrender-option-to-local-militants\/article20555586.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New J&amp;K surrender policy to target local militants<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Army and the J&amp;K Police, in a joint appeal asked all local militants to give up arms and assured them \u201cfull cooperation\u201d to join the mainstream under the fresh surrender policy framed by the government as over 130 local militants are still active in the Valley.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Start of a new phase<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Army is after foreign terrorists; therefore they want to give the local boys a chance to surrender.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The coming home of Majid Khan, who had joined Lashkar-e-Taiba will embark this new phase.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI hope mothers of other militants will follow suit in making an appeal. I foresee a violence-free and disturbance-free Kashmir soon,\u201d said J&amp;K DGP S.P. Vaid.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Army suggested that the local militants could use the helpline if they want to come back.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The fresh surrender policy<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government has taken inputs from all security agencies to frame the fresh policy<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier, the surrender policy was limited to those <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">who crossed the Line of Control into Pakistan-occupied Kashmir<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the early 1990s and were stuck there.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new surrender policy is considering provision of \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">passports and jobs to any local youth who gives up the gun<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d and \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">support for his full assimilation into society<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The homecoming<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parents of two more militants have appealed through the media to their sons to give up militancy and rejoin the family.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Around 60 boys have already been brought back into the fold, said the police.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is being considered a remarkable change in the situation. The agitation that peaked earlier this year has been brought under control.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New J&amp;K surrender policy to target local militants Context The Army and the J&amp;K Police, in a joint appeal asked all local militants to give up arms and assured them \u201cfull cooperation\u201d to join the mainstream under the fresh surrender policy framed by the government as over 130 local militants are still active in the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-jk-surrender-policy-to-target-local-militants\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New J&#038;K surrender policy to target local militants<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704890032},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}