As per the official report, the law and order situation is improving in Kashmir. The local terrorist recruitment, stone-pelting, and protest are lowest in Kashmir this year. Since, 2016 summer, the situation has improved on the ground and there is an overall improvement by 60%, reveals an official report. According to the report, “efforts put in by families of youth, hectic counseling of youth at the district level and the joint strategy of police and other security agencies have “started bearing the fruit.”

  

The report found that “the stone pelting hubs in south Kashmir districts that include Kulgam (Redwani, Khudwani towns), Pulwama, Shopian, and Anantnag too have shown satisfactory results. There is a significant improvement in law and order situation and that is because of the declining trend of street protests in south Kashmir districts that were the epicenter of protests in 2017 and 2018”.

“In 2017, South Kashmir recorded 187 incidents of violence and in 2018, these incidents reduced to less than 100. This year only 22 incidents of stone pelting and law and order disturbances were witnessed. The figures exclude incidents that happened during recent polls.”

 

The street protests in Kashmir have shown a declining trend at a time when local militant recruitment too has gone to its lowest ebb since 2017. It is reported that only 23 local boys joined militancy this year so far against 30 till April of 2018.