<p>"With the US withdrawing its forces from Afghanistan, Jihadis and Talibans infiltrating into India and Pakistan cannot be ruled out", Air Commodore Arjun Subramaniam, Air Headquarters, New Delhi, said today.<br /><br />"If that happens, Taliban can get back to Kashmir and expand the proxy war", he said.<br />Stating that the country needs to be equipped to deter Pakistan from entering into a proxy war, he said good governance and perception management were the need of the hour in Jammu and Kashmir.<br /><br />"Deterrance, governance and perception management should be coercive in bringing normalcy to Kashmir", he said at a seminar on "Conflict in Kashmir: Challenges Ahead" organised by department of Defence and Strategic Studies at the University of Madras here today.<br /><br />Terming that the dialogue between Pakistan and India has become "intractable", Lieutenant General Prakash Menon said "good governance is a tough challenge today.. but only it would take care all of us (particularly in Jammu and Kashmir)..", he said.<br />Major General Rajavelu,Officers Training Academy, Chennai, in his address said all the Armed forces units were asked to be "sensitive" in addressing the needs of people (of Jammu and Kashmir).<br /><br />He recalled that during his tenure in Jammu and Kashmir, there was no proper road connectivity and even no telephone connection..<br /><br />"Today you talk about 3G and 4G coming in.. But for 40,000 people in a valley of Jammu and Kashmir, there was no telephone", he said, adding that after writing a letter to the then Union IT and Communication Minister Dayanidhi Maran the issue was sorted out saying the Ministry assured of providing a telephone exchange.</p>
<p>"With the US withdrawing its forces from Afghanistan, Jihadis and Talibans infiltrating into India and Pakistan cannot be ruled out", Air Commodore Arjun Subramaniam, Air Headquarters, New Delhi, said today.<br /><br />"If that happens, Taliban can get back to Kashmir and expand the proxy war", he said.<br />Stating that the country needs to be equipped to deter Pakistan from entering into a proxy war, he said good governance and perception management were the need of the hour in Jammu and Kashmir.<br /><br />"Deterrance, governance and perception management should be coercive in bringing normalcy to Kashmir", he said at a seminar on "Conflict in Kashmir: Challenges Ahead" organised by department of Defence and Strategic Studies at the University of Madras here today.<br /><br />Terming that the dialogue between Pakistan and India has become "intractable", Lieutenant General Prakash Menon said "good governance is a tough challenge today.. but only it would take care all of us (particularly in Jammu and Kashmir)..", he said.<br />Major General Rajavelu,Officers Training Academy, Chennai, in his address said all the Armed forces units were asked to be "sensitive" in addressing the needs of people (of Jammu and Kashmir).<br /><br />He recalled that during his tenure in Jammu and Kashmir, there was no proper road connectivity and even no telephone connection..<br /><br />"Today you talk about 3G and 4G coming in.. But for 40,000 people in a valley of Jammu and Kashmir, there was no telephone", he said, adding that after writing a letter to the then Union IT and Communication Minister Dayanidhi Maran the issue was sorted out saying the Ministry assured of providing a telephone exchange.</p>