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| A bag of RDX at Gharana is Pak's New Year Gift to BSF | | Incident reminds of the Purlia arms dropping case | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 30:
A bag of RDX is the Pak Rangers's New Year gift to BSF. Only two days
were left for the Year-2009 to end when Pak-based militants dropped a bag of deadly RDX at Gharana near here early Tuesday morning.
This reminds of the December 17, 1995, infamous Purlia arms dropping
case in which several hundred AK-47 rifles and more than a million
rounds of ammunition were dropped by a Latvian aircraft over a large
area of Purlia district of West Bengal.
Though it is not possible to repeat Purlia in the Jammu border
villages where there are no takers of terrorism, the Pak-based
militants tried the idea of dropping a bag of 3 kg RDX, several detonators, pistols and three lakh fake Indian Currency notes, besides other fissile material.
For the purpose, they chose the forward Bakkerpur outpost area at Gharana. This was the first incident of arms dropping in Jammu sector.
The idea, however, did not work as the consignment was detected by a
BSF patrol and destroyed before it could be taken for use by local contacts of the Pak-based militants.
To drop the bag, the militants, or may be the Rangers entered the Indian territory early Tuesday morning. Then covering a distance of 150-200 metres, they possibly scaled more than 10-ft-high barbed-wire fencing and dropped the bag. They then fled back without being seen by BSF troops.
This is not the single case of breach of security along the IB. Few
years back, 20 deadly rockets, each weighing over 50 kgs, were smuggled into Jammu, possibly from R S Pura sector. All facing the M A Stadium, these were fitted by the Pak agents atop some trees in the sprawling dry Tawi river bed on the back side of the stadium wall. The tragedy was, however, averted that time after some local boys had seen the rockets few days before Republic Day.
Police investigations had later revealed that the rockets were smuggled into the Indian territory on camel backs. However, who helped Pak agents to smuggle these rockets is still a mystery and conjecture.
The M A Stadium, which is the main venue of R-Day in the winter
capital, has always remained on the target of militants. On
January 26, 1995, serial blasts inside the stadium had left several
dead and many others injured.
The pre-timed IEDs, that time, were planted inside the "high security" M A Stadium by Major Irfan -- a Pak national. He had a vast network of contacts in Jammu region. During his stay here after the blasts, he had visited the residence of a NC minister (now dead) and later stayed in the official quarter of his driver at Poonch House, Panjtirthi.
Irfan, who was caught at Bari Brahmana during his second visit to
Jammu, had later broken the Kot-Bhalwal jail along with two other
Pakistani militants and then managed to exfiltrate to Pakistan.
From the infiltration bids, IED blasts and other unpleasant developments that have taken place along the IB in the past more than a month, it seems as if the Pak-based militants wanted the memories of the 1995-stadium blasts to revisit the state's winter capital. This seems to be a reason why they dropped the bag of RDX and other fissile material after the repeated failed infiltration bids by them. Like the Purlia arms dropping case, the dropping of arms and
ammunition on a Jammu border also seemed to be the part of a wider Pak conspiracy to keep the pot boiling in Jammu and Kashmir.
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