The Forest Protection Force (FPF) being set up in Jammu and Kashmir will justify its existence more by removing encroachments on forest land than by counter-smuggling operations, says its director, R M Saxena. The armed FPF, equippecd with modern communications network to facilitate rapid action, is espected to curb forest smugglers. In the past eight years, as many as 40 members of the forest staff, including a conservator, Parvez Qadri, have been killed by the smugglers.