Srinagar:
After every incident of human rights violation in the Valley, there is a public outcry in the shape of stone pelting. While the chief minister says this is done to disrupt peace, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) says Pakistan is sponsoring it.
Srinagar continues to rage against the death of a teenager, killed by a police tear gas shell on Sunday.
Such open expressions of anger, which were earlier limited only to some pockets in Srinagar, are now seen even in up market areas like Civil Lines.
Is this growing impatience with the armed forces or engineered rebellion?
The chief minister feels such attacks are planned, and not spontaneous.
"Unfortunately there are those forces that do not want normalcy in the state. They are time and again trying to precipitate law and order situation. Money is being paid to youngsters to go into the street and throw stones. Stones are dumped at particular points, particularly at Old Baramula, Sopore, and Old Srinagar with the view to disrupt the law and order situation," says the Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah.
The army describes this growing agitation as terrorism.
In the past one-and-a-half years, 1500 CRPF personnel were injured in stone pelting and almost 400 CRPF vehicles were damaged.
Now, the CRPF says, it's being instigated from across the border.
"They get money and due to that they resort to stone pelting. It's evident from where the money comes. Pakistan and its agencies undoubtedly are trying to disrupt peace in the country and particularly in Kashmir," says special DG CRPF N K Tripathi.
Going by the sheer number of securitymen hurt during stone pelting in the last couple of years in the Valley, it seems tackling stone pelting is perhaps turning out to be a tougher battle than militancy itself.
Srinagar continues to rage against the death of a teenager, killed by a police tear gas shell on Sunday.
Such open expressions of anger, which were earlier limited only to some pockets in Srinagar, are now seen even in up market areas like Civil Lines.
Is this growing impatience with the armed forces or engineered rebellion?
The chief minister feels such attacks are planned, and not spontaneous.
"Unfortunately there are those forces that do not want normalcy in the state. They are time and again trying to precipitate law and order situation. Money is being paid to youngsters to go into the street and throw stones. Stones are dumped at particular points, particularly at Old Baramula, Sopore, and Old Srinagar with the view to disrupt the law and order situation," says the Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah.
The army describes this growing agitation as terrorism.
In the past one-and-a-half years, 1500 CRPF personnel were injured in stone pelting and almost 400 CRPF vehicles were damaged.
Now, the CRPF says, it's being instigated from across the border.
"They get money and due to that they resort to stone pelting. It's evident from where the money comes. Pakistan and its agencies undoubtedly are trying to disrupt peace in the country and particularly in Kashmir," says special DG CRPF N K Tripathi.
Going by the sheer number of securitymen hurt during stone pelting in the last couple of years in the Valley, it seems tackling stone pelting is perhaps turning out to be a tougher battle than militancy itself.
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