Scan credentials of LoC trade supporters: Team Jammu

Tribune News Service 

Jammu, July 19

Team Jammu has expressed gratitude to Governor NN Vohra for taking personal interest in liberating youth of the state from drug addiction by directing the agencies concerned to detect the supply of narcotics through the cross-LoC trade.

It emphasised the need to immediately stop the trans-border trade to keep a check on narco-terrorism. Chairman, Team Jammu, Zorawar Singh Jamwal  also demanded scanning the credentials of some traders and the self-proclaimed peace activists of J&K supporting the cross-LoC trade.

“The directions given by the Governor to the authorities concerned, including the DGP, to go tough on smuggling of banned items and narcotics through the cross-LoC trade between the two parts of the divided state and to undertake complete verification of all traders engaged in the cross-LoC trade within a month and de-register the traders with doubtful antecedents has vindicated Team Jammu’s stand that narcotics and other banned drugs are smuggled from across the border through the cross-LoC trade,”  Jamwal said at a press conference in Jammu on Thursday.

He said some legislators and former legislators had supported Team Jammu’s efforts to eradicate the drug menace from society but the successive governments had failed to take any step.

Jamwal sought to draw the attention of people that 

the NIA had registered an FIR and was investigating the route of the hawala money through the cross-LoC trade routes for funding terrorism and stone-throwing in the Kashmir valley. 

He said it was surprising that meetings to discuss the trade were always held in big cities outside the country like Singapore, Thailand, Washington and Dubai. 

“We have apprehensions that such meetings are usually organised by international drug lords for the entertainment of the self-proclaimed peace activists and so-called traders who are being used to ensure smooth flow of their consignments from across the border to every nook and corner of India,” Jamwal said.

He urged the Governor to direct the police and other intelligence agencies to take note of such meetings held outside the country.