The hub of terrorism in Kashmir Valley

The northern district of Baramulla has been one of the worst militant infested districts of Jammu & Kashmir. It is the largest of 10 districts in the Kashmir Valley, both in terms of population and area. Spread over 4,588 sq km, it is bordered by Kupwara in the west, Budgam and Poonch in the south, parts of the summer capital, Srinagar, and Kargil in the east, and the Neelam district in Pakistan occupied Kashmir in the north. Baramulla, consequently, has immense ‘geo-strategic importance’ for the Pakistani handlers of terrorist groups like the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba, Hizb-ul-Mujahideen and other foreign terrorist formations, as it serves as a principal route of infiltration into the Indian side. As a result, Baramulla has emerged as a nodal point of terrorism in Jammu & Kashmir.

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