Indian Military failure in occupied Kashmir forces government to deploy deadly Black Cat Commandos to curb freedom movement

*NEW DELHI: Indian Military failure in tackling violence in occupiedKashmir has forced the Indian government to deploy ‘Black Cat’ commandos ofthe elite counter-terror force in Occupied Kashmir to help security forcesin dealing with encounters and hostage-like situations, reports said here.*

According to Economic Times, India’s Ministry of Home Affairs is examininga proposal to deploy a contingent of the National Security Guard (NSG)commandos in the held-Kashmir so that they can join the Indian Army,the CRPF and the state police when a high-risk militancy related incidenttakes place.

“We are planning to deploy the NSG in Kashmir. They are trained to dealwith terrorists and hostage-like situations. We are mulling over it,” thereported quoted a senior official privy to the matter as saying.

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Director General of Police, Jammu and Kashmir, S P Vaid had also saidrecently that he has been working on the proposal. “Hope it will besuccessful,” he had said.

This is not for the first time that the NSG commandos, popularly know as‘Black Cat’, would be deployed in Jammu and Kashmir. The commandos of theelite force have been deployed in the Valley in the past too.

Their special skills of carrying out house intervention and hostage rescuecan act as “clincher” during a terror siege, the official said.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh, during a recent NSG event in Telangana, hadsaid the government is planning as to how the force’s role could be“enlarged” vis-a-vis the new security challenges faced by the country, asthese commandos can play a “big role” in operations such as those whereterrorists take a human as shield and enter civilian premises.

The move to deploy NSG commandos in Kashmir comes in the wake of increasingincidents of encounters where security forces have lost many soldiersduring high-risk house intervention operations in densely populatedlocalities.

The ‘Black Cat’ commandos were deployed to tackle the terrorists whocarried out the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, January 2016 terror attack atthe Pathankot air base as well as eliminating the terrorists who attackedthe Akshardham.