Pakistan changed the PoK's demographics: Bipin Rawat Army Chief

Pakistan has changed the demographics of PoK and Kashmiris' identity on this side has been systematically eroded, said Wednesday Army Chief Bipin Rawat. He disapproved of suggestions to send security forces "to the barracks" whenever there is "some peace" in Kashmir, saying that this would give terrorists time to reorganize their networks and baderted that it was necessary to maintain sustained pressure "to control the situation".

Rawat, who was delivering the Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial Lecture, also worried about the possibility of authorizing funeral processions of terrorists, claiming that they glorified the militants as martyrs and "encouraged maybe more people to join the ranks of terrorists ". [19659004] Referring to PoK, Rawat said: "Pakistan has very intelligently changed the demographics of the so-called Kashmir occupied by Pakistan, Gilgit-Baltistan. So we do not really know who the Kashmiri is.

"It is a Kashmir or a Punjab that came and occupied this territory. The inhabitants of Gilgit-Baltistan are also progressively supported. Thus, if there is an identity between our part of Kashmir and the other, identity has gradually been eroded. This is a problem we need to address, "he said.

The Army Chief thanked the locals for carrying out operations against Kashmir militants, claiming they were providing "essential information". "Things will be under control and under control, but sustained pressure must be maintained. It should not happen that little peace that we see and say, oh, it's nice weather and now it's time to go back to the barracks and let things happen. This time will be used to reorganize the terrorist network, "he said.

Rawat said the situation must be brought to a level where terrorist groups can not reorganize. "You have to bring them to a level where they (the terrorists) are not able to reorganize, get their leaders out and make sure they have very little weapons left and do not have the opportunity to regroup and gather wherever they are. "

He also stressed that funeral processions that glorify terrorists as martyrs should be addressed." At a funeral procession when you do the same. martyrdom of a terrorist, it is perhaps what drives more people to join the ranks of terrorists, "he said." These are some of the issues we are looking at gradually. " said Rawat, pointing out that the army did not want to face a heavy hand and let that become a trigger for violence in the valley.

Rawat insisted on the need for greater positive engagement with young people to incite them to stay off the street and "gun culture." He added that the army would also take Kashmiri maulvis on "Sadbhavna yatras" in places like Ajmer Sharif , Agra and show them that 39, there was no persecution of any religious minority in India.