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Infiltration
for bribes
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On August 3,
2008 after
accusing JK
Police of
conniving
with
militants in
killing a
doctor,
Wajahat
Habibullah,
Chief
Information
Commissioner,
accused BSF
of taking
bribes from
militants to
allow them
to cross
over into
PoK in early
1990s.
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Wajahat
Habibullah
is a retired
IAS officer
from JK
·
In his book
My Kashmir:
Conflict and
the
Prospects of
Enduring
Peace,
62-year-old
Habibullah,
a 1968 batch
IAS officer,
said the
migration of
youths
exposed
grave
weakness in
patrolling
by Indian
forces along
the Line of
Control.
·
In September
1988, the
first group
of Pakistan
trained
youths was
arrested by
the Kashmir
police, but
they were by
no means the
first to
have crossed
the LoC.
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“Local
shepherds
from the
Gujjar
community
had guided
infiltrators
through
craggy
mountain
shepherd
pathways.
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The
paramilitary
BSF, created
to patrol
the
India-Pakistan
border in
1965 and
deployed
along the
LoC after
the
Simla
Agreement of
1972,
was
lackadaisical
in
patrolling.
Passage
across the
LoC was
easily
obtained by
paying
bribes set
at
predetermined
rates,”
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