Pakistan A Failed State,Kashmir sees ‘drastic fall’ in terror recruitment after Army launches de-radicalisation drive

 Pakistan A Failed State

Malaysia Seizes Pakistan Airlines Jet for Unpaid Dues, Leaving Passengers Stranded

A Boeing Co. 777 jet operated by Pakistan International Airlines Corp. was impounded on May 29 in Kuala Lumpur over unpaid charges to a leasing company, forcing the carrier to send a replacement aircraft to pick up stranded passengers.

A Malaysian court ordered the plane to be seized on the lessor’s request, PIA spokesman Abdullah Hafeez Khan said in a statement.

Internal Security

Kashmir sees ‘drastic fall’ in terror recruitment after Army launches de-radicalisation drive

Operation Sahi Raasta was started last year in Pattan in Baramulla district and is now being expanded to Anantnag. 

 Terror recruitment in Kashmir has seen a drastic fall this year, with the first five months seeing only seven youngsters joining terrorist groups.In 2022, saw 121 youngsters joining terror groups.This number was 142 in 2021, which was lower than 178 in 2020.

The Indian Army and the Jammu & Kashmir Police had together launched an operation called ‘Sahi Raasta’.Under the programme, radicalised youth or those getting radicalised are put through a 21-day capsule at a specialised centre, where they undergo counselling from a religious point of view as well as on career, besides other things.

The programme was started last year at Pattan in Baramulla district, and now another centre is being opened up in Anantnag, about 180 youngsters, in the 15-30 age group, had undergone the counselling.

“It is heartening to note that only one boy from the 180 that had undergone the programme joined terror ranks. That boy too came back within a week.

The families were reaching out to the Army when they felt that their children were getting radicalised. 

Informal de-radicalisation programmes have been run in the past but this is the first time that it is being done in a structured manner, but discreetly.

A focused crackdown on terror infrastructure and finances by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and J&K’s State Investigation Agency also played a key role in keeping terror recruitment down.

Security Children and Women

Operation AAHT-59 children rescued from human traffickers on Bihar-Pune train'

59 children rescued from human traffickers on Bihar-Pune train'.Five persons were arrested on the charge of human trafficking, These children were rescued from Danapur-Pune Special express train at Bhusawal and Manmad, in Jalgaon and Nashik districts, in Maharashtra, were being taken to Madasas without any documents or permission from their parents.

To combat human trafficking, the Railway Protection Force (RPF) has initiated Operation AAHT. It will primarily target trains that originate in border states. The Ministry of Railways oversees the operation. 

RPF special forces would be deployed in long-distance trains as part of the operation. The major goal of the operation will be to save women and children from human traffickers.

Human trafficking is an organized crime that involves the exchange of people for forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others, forced marriage, domestic servitude, organ transplantation, drug peddling, and so on

Each year, the National Crime Records Bureau records approximately 2,200 occurrences of human trafficking

Article 23 of the Indian Constitution makes it illegal to traffic in human beings or persons (1). In India, human trafficking is essentially a criminal offence under the Indian Penal Code.