Arms haul again

The efforts of our intelligence and security forces are indeed laudable. However, concern remains due to the appearance of such large quantities of sophisticated weapons in the same locality time and again. This is an insurgency-prone locality and hence every effort should be made to haul up the kingpins and the masterminds behind the procurement and trafficking drives. Are they treating the area as a safer location for hiding weapons? Sustained vigilance seems to be the answer.

Furthermore, the smugglers of such weapons must have preferred routes for trafficking these firearms into the country. Given the experience gathered by our intelligence and security forces over the last few years it should not be too difficult for them to seal the routes.

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The continued presence of such firearms bodes extremely ill for the volatile hilly region of the country. Moreover, these also have the potential of falling into the hands of organisations and networks with extremist agenda bearing a further possibility of causing an yet greater massacre in the country.

It is, therefore, imperative that those who are involved in smuggling and use of arms be nabbed along with the weapons; for, a mere discovery of the caches without catching the operators is no effective antidote to the trafficking.