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Pakistan turns to female allure to woo Kashmiri support

Pakistan has begun pushing female recruits from occupied Kashmir into Jammu and Kashmir to woo the local people in its proxy war against India.

According to sources, a large number of women militants in their mid-twenties has entered the Indian state from across the border and is active in Poonch and Rajouri districts.

The burqa-clad recruits have formed an organisation, Anjuman-e-Khawateen, to entice local girls and enlist them for carrying out subversive activities.

A senior defence officer pointed out that a similar organisation, Dukhtaran-e-Millat, had been set up earlier with the help of local girls, but was wound up as a failure.

The sources said the militants bear close resemblance to local girls, which makes it easy for them to mingle with the population.

The foreign mercenaries active in Kashmir earlier found support from the local people for needs like food, shelter, and money. But with that support drying up, they are looking for ways to win back the locals.

One solution devised by the militants was a short-term contract marriage, mutah, with local girls. After a certain period, usually one or two years, both parties would be free from their obligations.

But this system also failed because the local girls and their parents were left to fend for themselves once the contracts ended.

UNI

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