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| Srinagar on high alert as police apprehends terrorist strikes | | |  Hyder Ali
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Oct 4: Even as war clouds loom large over the state in the wake of heightening of tensions between India and Pakistan, Srinagar has been put on high alert as police apprehends major terrorist attacks here.
Top sources said the police and army have inputs that five to fix heavily armed terrorists have sneaked into the capital city around a fortnight back, ahead of the terror strike at army headquarters in Uri, when 19 jawans were killed in the deadliest strike of the decade.
A top official said the terrorists could be highly-trained having undergone specialized trainings including "Daur-e-Aam and Daur-e-Khaas in the Pakistan occupied territory." "These two are known to be the highest level of commando trainings, which terrorists are equipped with," the official added.
Sources said intelligence agencies have inputs that terrorists were seen in civil lines areas, mainly in the vicinity of the Srinagar-Jammu highway, which has been most vulnerable to such attacks and bore the brunt of causalities. "They could be on some special mission, which fetches them media spotlight… Government or security installations could be their possible targets," said an official asking not to be named.
Sources said while police have raised special nakas to intensify vigil, the Army also heightened its intelligence network because Srinagar houses atleast four major Army installations, the 15 Corps headquarters at Badami Bagh in the east, the Tattoo Ground garrison at Batamaloo in the south, the Rangreth Camp near the Srinagar airport in the west and the Sharifabad garrison towards north Kashmir side.
The Srinagar airport on the outskirts happens to be another sensitive installation, strategically important in the wake of war apprehensions.
Sources said on September 15, three days ahead of the Uri attack, the Army had specific inputs of presence of terrorists in the civil lines, mainly along the commercial hub. "Though the Army conducted a flag march in the Lal Chowk area, the terrorists had presumably fled," said an official.
Sources said though following inputs, police has raided atleast 20 places, the terrorists could not be located and were presumed to have fled. Around 1000 cops specialized in counter insurgency are on the toes.
It is for the first time in the past around three years that terrorists are believed to be on the move in the City. Otherwise though militancy revived elsewhere in the valley, Srinagar is seen as a terrorist-free district with even no reports of any sleeper cells being active anywhere.
In the past four months, the terrorists made deadly appearance in Srinagar, at least twice.
On May 24, three policemen were killed in two separate attacks, in north and south zones. The same evening, SOG Baramulla killed two Pakistani terrorists in a shootout in Sarai Bala area of the civil lines, where the "duo had been putting up as tenants in disguise of college students."
Thereafter, no such incident was reported till August 15, when two terrorists attacked a CRPF patrol in congested Nowhatta locality, killing the paramilitary commandant and wounding nine of his subordinates. Within hours the terrorist duo was killed in a gunfight there. |
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