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Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 20: With no let up in sponsoring of terror into India, Pakistan is now shifting its “terror focus” on the hinterland of Jammu region putting the security grid on tenterhooks.
Whereas on October 20, five persons from Ramban were booked under the Public Safety Act for terror related activities, official sources said the security grid has analyzed data, which makes it “aptly clear that Pakistan was onto a new terror mission in Jammu and Kashmir where its focus is more on the winter capital region than before.”
Sources said analysis of the data of terror related incidents including blasts in Udhampur and recovery of arms in ammunition in Rajauri-Poonch region has exposed the terror plot of the neighboring as the interrogation of those arrested has made things clear about “involvement and priorities of the enemy country.”
The officials privy to the analysis said “While those arrested where found to be assigned the task of expanding the terror base in Jammu hinterland, the said persons were enjoying access to the logistics in they hinterland.”
The alarm bells had started to ring in March of this year when a powerful blast rocked Udhampur. Subsequently in June, three men from Doda and Ramban districts were arrested in connection with an explosion in Udhampur on March 9 that killed one person and injured 16. Police had said the blast was caused by a sticky bomb believed to be smuggled to the area from Jammu frontiers along Poonch and Rajauri.
On September 29, twin blasts rocked Udhampur and subsequently on October 2 the police claimed to have cracked the case by arresting the terrorist behind the blasts. A few suspects of the area had been rounded up during the course of investigation. One of them, Mohd Aslam Sheikh, a resident of Kadwa Basantgarh in Udhampur had “confessed” that he had placed the IEDs in both the buses at the Ramnagar bus stand on the direction of his Pakistani handler Mohammed Amin Bhat, alias Khubaib. In the same first week of October, five persons were apprehended and booked under sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) in connection with the recovery of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Poonch district.
The IED was smuggled in from across the Line of Control (LoC) and recovered from a woman at Parade Park in Poonch town on September 28.
The woman during questioning by police revealed that her husband Muhammad Azad provided the IED to her. He was subsequently picked up and his confessions led to busting of the module.
A senior official who spoke to the Early Times on the condition of anonymity about the recent developments said the matter was being picked up with the Union Home Ministry. “A Powerpoint presentation in this regard is being prepared,” the official said. |
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