Director-General of Jammu and Kashmir Police Dilbag Singh on Monday said 27 terrorists have been killed by security forces in the past 17 days, causing frustration among militants who are now targeting innocent people.
Security forces including intelligence, army, police averted a major Pulwama-like terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Ayengund area of Rajpora, Pulwama after forces neutralised an IED (Improvised Explosive Device) recovered from a car. According to sources, the terrorists were planning to target a convoy of 20-25 vehicles that was to carry close to 400 soldiers, commanders and army officers.
Pakistan has launched new terror outfits staffed by cadres of the dreaded Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed under "local names" to mislead the world that it has nothing to do with the terrorism prevalent in Jammu and Kashmir, Director General of Police (DGP) of the union territory Dilbag Singh said.
Jammu Police in RS Pura area has arrested a suspected Jaish-e Mohammad (JeM) terrorist -- hardcore over ground worker (OGW) along with incriminating material.
Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police Dilbag Singh on Friday said the truck driver ferrying Jaish-e-Mohammed militants to Kashmir is the cousin of Pulwama suicide bomber Adil Dar who killed 40 CRPF personnel last year.
Mohsin Manzoor Salhea, a resident of Old Town Baramulla, was arrested along with arms and ammunition on Sunday. He was part of a newly-raised group of three terrorists aimed at conducting terror activities in Baramulla district, the police said.
The police received an information on Friday evening from Jammu and Kashmir military intelligence and Punjab police that a suspected militant of JeM was passing through Ambala in an apple-laden truck going towards Delhi, the SP said.
According to fresh inputs received by intelligence agencies in India, as many as 45 militants are likely to have crossed over into Jammu and Kashmir over the last fortnight.
According to Pakistan watchers, Jaish has prepared a group of 30 suicide attackers to hit India, particularly installations in military cantonments and convoys of Indian security forces in Jammu and Kashmir.
Pakistan-based terrorist outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed was planning to carry out 'fidayeen' attacks at several places in India, including Delhi and NCR, similar to the February 14 Pulwama attack in Jammu and Kashmir that left 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel dead, the National Investigation Agency's chargesheet said on Monday.
Jaish-e-Mohammed's (JeM) Sajjad Ahmad Khan, a close aide of Pulwama attack mastermind Mudassir Ahmad Khan, was conspiring terror attacks across country, the NIA claimed in its charge sheet in a case of conspiracy filed before a Delhi court on Monday.
Police are interrogating the three to get more details, Kathua SSP Sridhar Patel told PTI. "We have got seven-day remand of the 3 JeM terrorists today," he said.
A terrorist of the Jaish-e-Mohammad, Basir Ahmad, has been arrested by the special cell of Delhi Police. The militant carried Rs 2 lakh bounty on his head and was held from Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir. Two others, said to be the accomplices of Ahmad have also been arrested.
Addressing a joint press conference with the state police and the Army, KJS Dhillon said that post-Pulwama attack 41 terrorists have been killed and out of them 25 belonged to Jaish-e-Mohammed and 13 of them were Pakistanis.
The spokesperson said ammunition, including live rounds, was seized from the three terrorists.
Azhar, the founder of Jaish-e-Mohammad, responsible for a series of terror strikes in India including the attack on Parliament in 2001 and a CRPF convoy in Pulwama last month, had procured a Pakistani passport in his real name and original address in 1986 and had extensively toured African and Gulf countries where he realized that the Arab nations were not sympathetic to the "Kashmir cause".
China has for the 4th time put a technical hold on the listing of Maulana Masood Azhar's name in the UN designated terror list.
"Camps were destroyed during the surgical strike after which the Intelligence informed the government about a massive terror camp which was being operated in Pakistan," Jaitley said.
The proscribed organisations will be examined under heightened security checks at all layers of legal, administrative, investigative and financial regimes, the Dawn newspaper reported.
The Army spokesman's claim takes the cake. Maj. Gen. Asif Ghafoor, the Pakistani army spokesman, said at a briefing on Wednesday that Jaish-e-Mohammed does not exist in his country after the recent ban.
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