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How Pak Lashkar fidayeen carried out Srinagar attack

Srinagar,Mar 19: Jammu and Kashmir Police today revealed how Lashkar-e-Toiba militants based in Pakistan came to Srinagar to carry out the attack on CRPF, which led to the martyrdom of 5 jawans. IG Police, Kashmir,

PTI Updated on: March 19, 2013 16:16 IST
Five CRPF jawans were killed and four to five other jawans were injured in a shootout outside a CRPF post near a public school in Srinagar.
Identifying the two suicide attackers as Saif of Dera Ghazi Khan and Haider of Multan (both in Pakistan), the IGP said the attackers were directed by Lashkar commander Ahmad Bhai and logistics chief Anas Bilal to carry out the attacks.



“The duo (Saif and Haider) were instructed by their commanders based across the LoC to choose a target which would inflict maximum damage...that is why they chose Bemina,” he said.

Their prime target was “the disruption of normal life,” Mir said.
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