JAMMU: Following the success achieved by the six party front (Muthida Jehad Council) in giving teeth to the current antiIndian campaign in the Kashmir valley, efforts are afoot to form a broad based organisation in which more than 14 militant outfits, including the JKLF and the Student Liberation Front (SLF), work under one supreme command,

Leaders of the Muthida Jehad Council, including those belonging to Hizbul Mujahideen, are said to have held a series of meetings with top JKLF and SLF activists in recent days and both sides have agreed to form a united front of all militant outfits that matter in the valley. The two sides are meeting again to give a final shape to the broad based front for which the JKLF chief, Amanullah Khan, has already expressed his favour.

Senior militant leaders have come to realise that by working separately their energies were being wasted as some saboteurs within these organisations had started issuing Press statements on fake letter pads which usually resulted in confusion. Some of the statements pertained to calls for hartal or bandhs when the genuine militant outfits had not given any such call.

The proposed front aims at demarcating duties separately to each constituent units of the front. It has been decided to earmark targets for attack to each unit so that there is no confusion among the militant outfits. A decision has been taken to distribute areas in the valley to each unit and initial plan is to allocate urban areas, especially Srinagar and Anantnag towns to the JKLF and the SLF, and leave rural areas to Hizbul Mujahideen. Al Umar and the Muslim Jaan Baaz Force too are being given urban and semi urban areas where activists of these organisations would Strike against the security forces and hit vital government installations.

Informed sources said that the new supreme command would maintain a code and whenever the man responsible for briefing the Press issues a statement or talks on the phone to newsmen he would first reveal the code so that newsmen receive authentic briefing.

Article extracted from this publication >> October 26, 1990