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| RDX may have been smuggled via road link to Kashmir | | Pulwama massacre of CRPF jawans | | Ealy Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 24: After collecting the material evidence from the site of Pulwama attack, which martyred over 40 CRPF jawans on February 14, National Investigation Agency (NIA) is now focusing all its energies to "uncover the plot" hatched by the handlers of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) suicide bomber Adil Ahmad Dar, a resident of Kakapora. According to credible sources, "over 20 suspects, having links with a local cadre of JeM, have been questioned by ve Agency (NIA) to collect more corroborative evidence to nail Pakistan".
The NIA team is, in addition, also searching for answers "on how and who transported/supplied huge quantity of explosive material and fabricated the SUV for the big strike in Kashmir valley".
As per sources, "forensic experts have concluded that the explosive used in the blast was RD" and "the NIA investigators are now searching for overground workers, if any, who ferried RDX to Kashmir valley".
Intelligence agencies have claimed that the "possibility that the same was smuggled into Kashmir valley via road from Jammu cannot be ruled out".
So far no links have emerged to suggest that the explosive was purchased or supplied by some local over ground worker to these men from Kashmir valley.
It needs to be underlined that only last year, when security forces had foiled terror strike near Jammu's Jhajjar Kotli area along the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway in September 2018 it had been revealed that the "truck operators from different parts of Kashmir were ferrying infiltrators from Jammu to Kashmir in their trucks in lieu of money". During their investigation, a truck driver and his caretaker had revealed that "more than 20 infiltrators were ferried by them in small batches before being caught".
According to police, the arrested driver and his accomplice were identified as Riaz Ahmad son of Ghulam Ahmad R/o Hajin, Pulwama and Mohammad Iqbal son of Abdul Khaliq R/o Pakharpora, Budgam, a BSc Nursing student. Brother of Riaz was also a terrorist and had been killed in an encounter with the security forces. Official sources revealed they were both working as OGW's of Jaish-e- Mohammad terrorist outfit.
The possibility that the same module could have smuggled RDX material around the same time to allow JeM handlers enough time to fabricate the vehicle ahead of the attack cannot be ruled out.
The NIA is expected to interrogate both the truck driver and the caretaker to join the dots.
So far over 20 suspects, having links with local cadre of JeM, have been questioned by the NIA to collect more corroborative evidence required to nail Pakistan.
The manner in which things are changing only suggests that something big could happen in J&K anytime from now. And the February 23 statement of PM Narendra Modi at Tonk in Rajasthan that "no one will be spared" and that his government was "fighting for Kashmir" only constituted an indication that his government was under tremendous pressure to strike against those who created mess in Kashmir and who conducted the Pulwama terror attack and similar other attacks. |
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