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Jaish to stop activities outside Jammu & Kashmir
By Shujaat Bukhari
JAMMU, FEB. 4. In a major policy shift, the militant organisation, Jaish-e-Mohammad - responsible for the October 1 and December 13 attacks in India - has asked its cadre to stop forthwith their activities outside Jammu and Kashmir. It also decided to effect changes in its cadre.
In a statement issued to a local news agency CNS in Srinagar, the JeM spokesman, Shamsuddin Haider, said that an extraordinary meeting of the top-level commanders was held under the chairmanship of Abu Hijrat, in which the situation across Jammu and Kashmir was discussed and some important decisions taken. ``It was decided to direct the mujahideen of our organisation in other states of India to stop their activities and report back to headquarters'' said the spokesman adding that now the activities of Jaish would be confined to Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. He did not give any reasons for stopping the activities. ``Our members will continue to target Army installations in the State'' he said.
The meeting was told that earlier the ratio of foreign and local militants was 75 and 25 per cent and ``it was now decided to reverse the ratio - locals would form 75 per cent of mujahideen and the rest would be foreigners. The militants had been accordingly directed to intensify their activities in each part of the State.
The Jaish was founded by Moulana Masood Azhar, one of the three militant leaders freed in exchange for hijacked IA plane passengers in Kandahar in December 1999. It eventually emerged as one of the strongest organisations operating in Kashmir and other parts of the country. It is also held responsible for attacks on the Srinagar Assembly on October 1 and Parliament on December 13.
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