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2 years after Pulwama attack, J&K Police recovers 7 kg IED at Jammu
[OneIndia] The Jammu and Kashmir.jpg "Kashmir") ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... police on Sunday thwarted a major tragedy with the timely detection of a seven-kg Improvised Explosive Device (IED) near the crowded general bus stand area in Jammu city. The incident comes exactly two years after a terror attack on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) convoy in south Kashmir's Pulwama killed 40 security personnel. Addresing a presser, Jammu Inspector General of Police (IG) Mukesh Singh said "We were on high alert as we had inputs that terror groups were planning an attack on the anniversary of Pulwama attack. Last night we arrested a person named Sohail and recovered 6-6.5 to 7 kgs of IED from his possession." "Sohail revealed during probe that he studies in Chandigarh and he received message from Pakistain's Al Badr Tanzeem ...one of the many jihadi groups in Kashmir, it was separated from Hizb-ul-Mujahideen in 1998 by the ISI for what no doubt seemed good reasons at the time. Previously that decade it had fought alongside Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Hizb-i-Islami in Afghanistan. It’s a member of the United Jihad Council, a confederation of Kashmiri jihadi groups, and is associated with Al Qaeda and Jamaat-e-Islami. Al Badr has been on US State Dept terror lists since 2005... unless Tanzeem means they’re an offshoot or another group altogether, in which case please ignore all of the above... to plant IED here," he said."Sohail was given three-four target locations to place the IED, after which he was supposed to take a flight to Srinagar where an Over Ground Worker of Al Badr Tanzeem named Athar Shakeel Khan would have received him," he added. Further elaborating on the attack, the cop said "a person named Qazi Waseem in Chandigarh was also aware of this matter, he has been held. We have also arrested a person named Abid Nabi." Related: Pulwama: 2021-02-07 LeM chief arrested in Jammu; major terror strike foiled Pulwama: 2021-02-03 2 JeM terrorists, 4 of their associates held in J&K Pulwama: 2021-01-02 Pakistan, India exchange nuclear installations list in annual practice Related: Jammu city: 2021-02-07 LeM chief arrested in Jammu; major terror strike foiled Jammu city: 2018-02-14 2 suspected militants, soldier killed in held Kashmir: police Jammu city: 2018-02-12 Kashmir gunfight enters second day, five soldiers dead Posted by: trailing wife 2021-02-15 |
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