Terrorists and Separatists

In Kashmir, a major plan to carry out a series of assasinations and surprise attacks have been foiled.
bq. The detained people have been accused by the Kashmir police of plotting to mount daring “terrorist attacks” in several Indian cities as well as the Kashmir Valley. Among those held is a woman. “They were planning some high-profile actions in the city of Srinagar as well as in Mumbai, Pune and New Delhi such as assassinating important political leaders and the police brass,” Director General of Police (DGP), Gopal Sharma, said on Tuesday. In Srinagar, the suspects were preparing to ram an explosives-laden vehicle into a VIP’s motorcade, he said. Other police officers said Kashmir chief minister, Mufti Muhammad Sayeed, was a probable target of the planned attack. [“Al-Jazeera”:http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CA121A64-2D9E-4B4A-A004-5E737DC28AB7.htm]
I don’t know if any other country will tolerate this. But in India, tax payers money is being used to protect separatists, people who want to split the country into two.
bq. Meanwhile, EXCELSIOR learned from highly placed authoritative sources that “extra-ordinary” security arrangements were being made for five protected separatist leaders in the wake of “very disturbing disclosures” by the slain militants. According to these sources, Government was also going to offer Police protection to the JKLF chief Yasin Malik, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq?s confidante Shahid-ul-Islam, Peoples League supremo Sheikh Abdul Aziz and hijacker-turned-activist Hashim Qureshi. However, it was not immediately clear whether these separatist leaders would accept the Police protection or turn down the same as usual. [“Daily Excelsior”:http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/web1/04june30/news.htm#4 (via “Acorn”:http://www.paifamily.com/opinion/archives/000922.html)]