A week after reaching a truce with Pakistan to halt their most serious conflict in decades, New Delhi said on Saturday that military veterans would be re-deployed as security guards in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
The unrest, which killed almost 70 people, was triggered by a gunman’s attack on tourists in IIOJK last month, which New Delhi claims Islamabad supported but disputes.
According to a government press release, the IIOJK administration approved a “proposal for mobilising Ex-Servicemen (ESM) to safeguard vital infrastructure across the Union Territory.”
According to the report, 435 of the approximately 4,000 veterans who have been “identified” as non-combatant volunteers possess personal weapons licenses.
