The Special Operations Group (SOG) of the Jammu and Kashmir Police unearthed a nexus between an inter-state car lifters gang and the militants, who had been purchasing the cars to use in subversive activities including car bombing1.

At a function in Delhi on February 4, Union Water Resources Minister Saifuddin Soz noted that the two-decade-old militancy in J and K had caused irreparable damage to ‘cultural values’ in the state and exhorted scholars and litterateurs to work for reviving cultural bonds2.

• 1. “Several stolen cars sold to Kashmir militants,” Daily Excelsior, February 5, 2008, at http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/web1/08feb05/news.htm#3
• 2. “Militancy an irreparable cause to cultural values in J&K: Soz,” Daily Excelsior, February 6, 2008, at http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/web1/08feb06/news.htm#3