New Delhi:
Government sources have revealed that trouble-makers in Jammu and Kashmir are being instructed by their mentors in Pakistan to keep the Kashmir valley on the boil by instigating people to confront security forces.
The sources say the latest strategy of the Pakistan's ISI and the Lashkar-e-Toiba is to combine renewed infiltration attempts by heavily-armed militants with the unleashing of civil unrest to ensure Kashmir remains in a state of chaos.
The aim is to make create the kind of situation that had prevailed during the 2008 Amarnath Yatra agitation, the sources said.
One of the main elements of this new strategy is to instigate people to confront security personnel and force them to react violently.
Over the last couple of weeks Kashmir has indeed witnessed violent protests with agitators often attacking security forces.
The new strategy to foment trouble has been devised following the failure to push an adequate number of militants across the Line of Control in the past few months, the sources said.