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🔥 If the administration forced a military CHT convoy to halt in a terror-prone zone just to service an official's ego, it is not just arrogance, it is playing with the lives of our soldiers. Sources says, DC the "VIP Halt" In the highly volatile terrain of Kashmir, an Army convoy, even one utilizing Civil Hired Transport (CHT), is a prime target. In these dangerous sectors, movement is survival; halting a convoy makes sitting ducks out of the jawans. For Deputy Commissioner Pankaj Kumar Sharma to reportedly demand that a military convoy stall simply to let his own cavalcade pass first shows a shocking disregard for the tactical realities and extreme security risks our soldiers face daily. Despite the immense danger of being stranded, the jawans tried to handle the situation. But the ultimate betrayal occurred when a policeman allegedly cocked his service rifle at the troops. You do not point a loaded weapon at combat-hardened soldiers of the Rashtriya Rifles who are already on edge, stranded in a high-risk area. To a soldier trained to neutralize threats in fractions of a second, a cocked rifle is an immediate, lethal threat. The fact that the entire blame is now being dumped on the heads of the Indian Army is a complete travesty. How quickly the civil administration forgets. Just a year ago, when Kishtwar was drowning under devastating flash floods, it wasn't the bureaucrats' convoys that saved the day. When the local infrastructure collapsed, it was the jawans and the Commanding Officer of this exact 17 Rashtriya Rifles battalion who plunged into the mud and raging waters. They worked without sleep, pulling civilians from the rubble and rescuing the very region that now points weapons at them. Our soldiers do not ask for VIP treatment; they only ask to do their duty and survive the gauntlet of the valley. To risk the lives of an entire convoy for a DC's right-of-way, and then criminalize the Army for reacting to a cocked weapon, is an unforgivable insult to the men who bleed to keep Kishtwar safe.