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| After blast, congratulatory calls to PoK | | | AGENCIES
NEW DELHI/PUNE, Feb 15: Phone intercepts after a meeting between top Lashkar operatives, a Brigadier rank officer of the ISI and one Colonel Rashid of the Pak Army in PoK early this week indicate that terrorist handlers in India were given a green signal to strike elsewhere in India while continuing jihad in Jammu and Kashmir.
Hours after the Pune blast, agencies also picked up some calls to PoK with congratulatory messages, said sources, adding that these coincided with Jamaat-ud-Dawa deputy chief Rehman Makki’s warning at a rally in Islamabad on February 5 that earlier jihadis were interested only in Kashmir but the water issue had ensured “Delhi, Pune and Kanpur” were fair targets.
Forensic investigations have confirmed the use of ammonium nitrate in the bakery blast. It was used extensively by the Indian Mujahideen (IM) to trigger explosions in Ahmedabad a couple of years ago. Home Ministry sources said hints of RDX, a Lashkar trademark, were also found, but would be confirmed after analysis.
The probe by Maharashtra ATS into the blast is leading it to view IM as the prime suspect. If it turns towards IM, the role of its cofounder Riyaz Bhatkal, believed to have escaped to Pakistan, will become obvious.
Bhatkal, a suspect in the Jaipur, Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Delhi blasts last year, has been allegedly planning attacks in India with his elder brother Iqbal, another IM fugitive still at large but known to be within India.
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