According to a report published by DNA, it is suspected that the brother of Masood Azhar, head of the global terrorist appointed by the United States, Mufti Abdul Rauf Asghar, is the mastermind behind the cowardly Pulwama. It is also being contemplated that Abdul Rauf Asghar had planned the attack along with the ISI, Pakistan’s intelligence agency.
Abdul Rauf Asghar had been charge-sheet by the NIA in November 2018, for organizing the Nagrota 2016 terrorist attack case.
The scale of Thursday’s attack surprised the intelligence agencies, as they believed that only the remains of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) were present in the Valley. Almost all of JeM’s management has been eliminated over the years.
However, the contributions received by the agencies suggested that JeM had been rebuilding its network in southern Kashmir for the past three months.
In the gruesome act, at least 40 CRPF men were killed after a suicide bomber from Jaish-e-Mohammad collided with a car loaded with explosives on the 55-seat bus in which they were traveling in Lethpora, Pulwama, in the south of Kashmir.
A terrorist belonging to the Pakistani terrorist army backed the terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammad, identified as Adil Ahmad Dar, rammed an SUV loaded with more than 300 kg of explosives on the CRPF bus carrying approximately 40 people.
The CRPF convoy of 70 vehicles carrying more than 2000 people was on its way to Srinagar from Jammu after the road was opened for one-way traffic after several days of closure due to heavy rains and subsequent landslides.
Jaish-e-Mohammad took responsibility for the attack and identified the suicide bomber (fidayeen) as Adil Ahmad of Kakapora in Pulwama, who joined Jaish-e-Mohammed in 2018. They also published a videotape of the suicide bomber.
Those who tracked developments in the state said that a suicide car attack was very rare in the state and has not taken place in Kashmir in the past two decades.
The suicide attack was first carried out by Jaish-e-Mohammad in 2000 when Afaq Ahmed Shah, a boy from Srinagar, tried to ram a Maruti 800 loaded with explosives into the entrance of the headquarters of 15 Army Corps. in Srinagar.
Army soldiers, however, defied the attacker and forced him to detonate the explosives prematurely.
The Jaish led another suicide attack the following year in the same place which was also thwarted.
The last time a car bomb of such magnitude occurred was in 2001 when JeM detonated a Sumo Tata full of explosives at the door of the old assembly building at Jehangir Chowk in Srinagar, in which 38 people were killed and 40 others injured. After the explosion, three Jaish militants stormed the assembly complex and then died in a long gunfight.
With the death toll reaching almost 44, this cowardly and horrible attack sponsored by none other than the terrorist state of Pakistan is being considered the worst attack in the history of Jammu and Kashmir. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, condemning this cowardly act, assured that the sacrifices of “our brave security personnel will not be in vain”.
“The attack on the personnel of CRPF in Pulwama is despicable. I strongly condemn this atrocious attack. The sacrifices of our brave security personnel will not be in vain. The whole nation stands shoulder to shoulder with the families of the brave martyrs. May the wounded recover quickly, “the Prime Minister Modi tweeted.
Attack on CRPF personnel in Pulwama is despicable. I strongly condemn this dastardly attack. The sacrifices of our brave security personnel shall not go in vain. The entire nation stands shoulder to shoulder with the families of the brave martyrs. May the injured recover quickly.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) February 14, 2019
Meanwhile, Interior Minister Singh is also expected to visit Srinagar today.
