{"id":43713,"date":"2018-05-21T16:12:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T10:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=43713"},"modified":"2018-05-21T16:18:09","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T10:48:09","slug":"government-cannot-adopt-a-soft-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/special-tv-shows\/apn-mudda-show\/government-cannot-adopt-a-soft-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGovt cannot adopt a soft approach\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Panellists feel that with Pak repeatedly violating ceasefire, it is now a full-fledged violation of the LoC<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In yet another ceasefire violation, Pakistani Rangers fired mortar shells on border outposts at several places in Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s Arnia sector, prompting retaliation by the Border Security Force or BSF soldiers guarding the International Border.\u00a0<em>APN<\/em>\u2019s popular debate\u00a0<em>Mudda<\/em>\u00a0discussed the issue with panellists including BJP\u2019s Bhaskar Ghose, Congress\u2019s Ajay Verma, defence expert Col Danvir Singh, noted scribe Piyush Pant and\u00a0<em>APN<\/em>\u00a0consultant Govind Pant Raju.<\/p>\n<p>Anchorperson Anant posed the first question to Col Danvir Singh, who said the ceasefire violation is not fair. \u201cOur army can\u2019t be emotional, and has to give a fitting response.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pant said \u201cIndia has always wanted peace, so ceasefire is welcome, but violations of ceasefire persist and that is the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raju said: \u201cPakistan has violated the ceasefire pact at least 700 times in the last one year. Pakistan is bent on creating tension around LoC, and BSF has given a fitting response.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ghose said: \u201cA soft approach could be adopted due to Ramzan, but unfortunately Pak violated the ceasefire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Col Singh said: \u201cWhen the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/topic\/ceasefire-violation\">ceasefire violation<\/a> happens repeatedly, it is no longer a ceasefire violation, it is now LoC violation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Verma said: \u201cThere are some typical areas where attack is certain, but no blueprint is ready from the government\u2019s side. Government should be pro-active instead of indulging in back-slapping. Pak attitude is not going to get better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Ghose said that \u201cinfiltration graph is on the downward slide\u201d, Raju said: \u201dCeasefire violations and terrorism graph is on the rise, and government policies need to be re-examined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Col Singh said: \u201cLoC faces ceasefire violation and infiltration. Ceasefire violation is always given a fitting reply by the army. In modern time, infiltration is rare. At the grassroots level, why is terrorism not contained? Government policies should be geared towards the youth so that they can devote themselves to more usefully productive work. He said Kashmir does not have a development issue as much as of radicalization. It is this radicalisation that the successive governments have not been able to contain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pant said: \u201cWhere are the government policies to contain radicalisation?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ghose said: \u201cPolitico-social measures alone cannot help. We need to get to the root cause. Recruitment of terrorists needs to be addressed. Kashmir is not a backward state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Col Singh;\u201dInfiltration is not easy, as the Indian army has taken all the steps to make it difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Verma said:\u201dCrores are spent at top-level dialogues, the so-called 56 inch chest is now reduced to a small 6-inch, due to all-round failures. The PM is now in poll mood, and will release videos etc that actually mean nothing on the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raju said: \u201cIf Pak initiates sudden attack, local people find it difficult to get security, though bunkers are being made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Col Singh said:\u201dthe army is doing its best to nip problems in the bud. After stabilising the ground, politicians need to start their narrative. The Valley\u2019s biggest failure is that of politicians, not of the defence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pant said: \u201cThe government has no strong will. It is in Pak interests to keep Kashmir issue alive. Dialogue can be a way out, Social and economic factors need to be seriously looked into so that the youth do not go astray.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u2014Compiled by Niti Singh Bhandari<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panellists feel that with Pak repeatedly violating ceasefire, it is now a full-fledged violation of the LoC In yet another ceasefire violation, Pakistani Rangers fired mortar shells on border outposts at several places in Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s Arnia sector, prompting retaliation by the Border Security Force or BSF soldiers guarding the International Border.\u00a0APN\u2019s popular debate\u00a0Mudda\u00a0discussed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":43717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[15],"tags":[1694,3543,2784,21],"yst_prominent_words":[4046,12120,12218,37120,49025,49020,41612,48368,49024,49026,49022,3885,49021,5919,24838,47736,45719,20936,49023,12219],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2018\/05\/21161108\/%E2%80%9CGovt-cannot-adopt-a-soft-approach%E2%80%9D..jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43713"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=43713"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=43713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->