Toll Rises to 27 in Suicide Attack on CRPF Convoy in J&K's Pulwama; Biggest Attack in 20 Years

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[Idassamed]

Security lapse

[Mitron]

11 minutes ago, Kool_SRG said:

About to post.

but why??

communal tensions??

[Mitron]

3 minutes ago, Idassamed said:

Security lapse

Meeke chellindi ilanti statements ivvadam

[Kool_SRG]

1 minute ago, Mitron said:

About to post.

but why??

communal tensions??

Yes... Antuke mobile internet services kuda stopped.

[trent]

Bodi gadu deenni kuda elections ki use chesukuntadu ippudu. Malli surgical strikes 2 ani hadavidi chesi

[Idassamed]

1 minute ago, Mitron said:

Meeke chellindi ilanti statements ivvadam

Inka em cheppa mantar saaru

 

[Idassamed]

1 minute ago, trent said:

Bodi gadu deenni kuda elections ki use chesukuntadu ippudu. Malli surgical strikes 2 ani hadavidi chesi

Cheyyadu

[kittaya]

4 hours ago, Android_Halwa said:

Revenge apart, this seems to be a big intel failure...

about 2500 CRPF men are moving in about 80 buses...intha pedda convoy la ilanti incident avadam ekado security protocol la lapse ayinattu vundi..I may be wrong ..kani normal ga inthe pedda convoy veltundi ante pilot vehicles, anti mine vehicle, cordon off , roads seal chestaru..etc itlanti security measures teesukuntaru....atlantidi oka scorpio car vachi convoy la gudhi explode ayiindi ante ekado lapse jarigindi

Adi true ae..

Ga ba..

 

[Mitron]

14 minutes ago, Idassamed said:

Inka em cheppa mantar saaru

 

70 years add cheyyadam miss ayyaru saru 

[Mitron]

15 minutes ago, Kool_SRG said:

Yes... Antuke mobile internet services kuda stopped.

Mobile internet shutdown akkade common e kada.

[Idassamed]

Just now, Mitron said:

70 years add cheyyadam miss ayyaru saru 

Forgotten

But idi security lapse a

[Kool_SRG]

Terrorist Lived 10 km From Site Where He Killed 40 Soldiers In Kashmir

More than 40 people were killed when the Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist rammed a vehicle loaded with explosives into a CRPF convoy in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama.

Pulwama attack: Adil Ahmad Dar joined Jaish-e-Mohammad last year.

 

NEW DELHI: 

HIGHLIGHTS

1. Adil Ahmad Dar, 22, joined terror group Jaish-e-Mohammad last year
2. He was also known as "Adil Ahmad Gaadi Takranewala"
3. Police say he is the third local suicide terrorist recruited by Jaish

 

Adil Ahmad Dar, the Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist behind the worst-ever terror attack on security forces in Jammu and Kashmir, lived just 10 km from the spot where he rammed his car full of explosives into a security convoy, killing over 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel on Thursday.

Also known as "Adil Ahmad Gaadi Takranewala" and "Waqas Commando of Gundibagh", he joined the Pakistan-based terror outfit last year. On Thursday, he drove towards the convoy of 78 CRPF busestransporting over 2,500 personnel from Jammu to Srinagar and rammed his SUV with 350 kg of explosives into a bus.

Adil Ahmad, 22, was a school dropout from Gundibagh village in south Kashmir's insurgency hotbed of Pulwama district, according to police records and government officials. He quit school in March 2017 and a year later, joined the Pakistan-based terror group led by Masood Azhar.

 

His photo and videos emerged soon after the deadly attack.

"My name is Adil, I joined the Jaish e Mohammad a year ago. After a year's wait, I have got the chance to do what I joined the Jaish for... By the time this video reaches you, I will be in heaven... this is my last message for the people of Kashmir," Adil Ahmad says in the video, as part of an anti-India rant.

Investigators are baffled at the scale of the attack, given that almost the entire leadership of Jaish has been wiped out over the years.

Last year, security forces had claimed a big win after Mohammad Usman, believed to be the head of the module behind sniper attacks on forces in the Kashmir Valley, was killed by security men. Usman was the nephew of Moulana Masood Azhar, the chief of Jaish-e-Mohammad. In 2017, security forces killed Jaish's operational chief Khalid in Baramulla.

According to the police, Adil Ahmad Dar is the third local "fidayeen" or suicide terrorist recruited by the Jaish-e-Mohammad for a big suicide attack.

The others were Fardeen Ahmad Khan, 16, of Tral and 17-year-old Afaq Ahmad Shah.

Fardeen was killed on December 31, 2017, when he, along with three foreign militants, sneaked into the CRPF training centre at Lethpora and killed five personnel.

 

Afaq, the police say, was the first local fidayeen to carry out a car bomb attack on the forces. He blew up an explosive-laden vehicle outside the 15 Corps headquarters at Badami Bagh on the outskirts of Srinagar in early 2000, killing eight troopers.

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Curfew imposed as protests rock Jammu against terror attack

Protestors raise slogans and burn tyres during a demonstration against the Pulwama terror attack, in Jammu, Friday, February 15, 2019

 

Tribune News Service 
Jammu, February 15

Indefinite curfew has been imposed in Jammu city following massive protests in the old city and adjoining areas against Thursday’s Pulwama terror attack.

“Curfew has been imposed in Jammu city,” Deputy Commissioner Ramesh Kumar told The Tribune saying additional forces had been deployed in the sensitive areas to avoid any untoward incident.

Jammu Chamber of Commerce and Industries (CCI) had given a call for Jammu Bandh which was supported by various organisations to lodge protest against the Pulwama terror attack. J&K High Court Bar Association has also supported the bandh call.

There were reports that clashes erupted in some areas of old city after miscreants reportedly spread rumours. Bandh supporters were seen moving from one place to another carrying rods and lathis.

Clashes erupted in Gujjar Nagar area of Jammu amid protesters torching vehicles on the roads following which curfew was imposed.

 

“More than 50 vehicles have been vandalised and eight vehicles set ablaze,” reports said.

A large contingent of forces laid cordon over Gujjar Nagar and is trying to control the situation. “The situation is almost out of control,” the Deputy Commissioner said, adding that he had ordered imposition of curfew in Jammu city to control the situation.

Mobile internet services have already been suspended in Jammu since Friday morning following the bandh call. Entire Jammu province has been observing a complete shutdown against the Pulwama attack.

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Centre Says Will Ensure Pak Isolation, Ends 'Most Favoured Nation' Status

Pulwama attack: 40 CRPF personnel were killed in the deadliest terror attack on security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama on Thursday.

NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR:  A day after over 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were killed in the deadliest terror attack on security forces in Jammu and Kashmir, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and top ministers held a security review meeting. PM Modi said those behind the terror attack would pay a "very heavy price" and had made a "huge mistake". Union Minister Arun Jaitley said the government has decided to take all possible diplomatic steps to ensure "complete isolation" of Pakistan and has withdrawn 'Most Favoured Nation' status to the country. Yesterday, New Delhi had urged the international community to back the naming of Jaish-e-Mohammed leader Masood Azhar as a "UN designated terrorist"; the Pakistan-based terror outfit has claimed the attack. The US has also asked Pakistan to "immediately end support and safe haven to all terrorist groups"

 

Here are the latest developments in this big story:

1. "The most favoured nation status to Pakistan stands revoked," Arun Jaitley said after the meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) at the PM's residence. The status of 'Most Favoured Nation' (MFN) is given to a trade partner to ensure non-discriminatory trade between two countries. India granted MFN status to Pakistan in 1996.
2. On Thursday afternoon, a suicide bomber ripped into a large convoy of 78 CRPF buses with over 2,500 personnel travelling on the highway from Jammu to Srinagar. At Pulwama, the Scorpio SUV with 350 kg of explosives rammed two of the buses transporting CRPF personnel reporting to duty in Srinagar.
3. The massive blast was heard several kilometres away, and left several buses in shreds. Bodies and human remains were left scattered across a 100-metre stretch of the highway.
4. The terrorist, 22-year-old Adil Ahmad Dar, lived just 10 km from the attack site at Awantipora. He was a school dropout who had joined the Jaish-e-Mohammad last year.
5. The scale of the attack - on a road that had been sanitised just hours before - points at meticulous planning and possible intelligence and security failure. Questions have been raised about so many personnel being transported at one go. Sources say the Srinagar-Jammu highway had been shut for the last two days due to bad weather, so a large convoy had left on Thursday morning around 3:30 am.
6. Sources say just two days before the strike, the Jaish had uploaded a video from Afghanistan, of a car bombing, and had threatened a similar attack in Kashmir. According to sources, the Jammu and Kashmir Criminal Investigation Department had shared the video and inputs about a possible attack.
7. Condemning the attack, the government, in a strongly-worded statement, demanded that "Pakistan stopped supporting terrorists and terror groups operating from their territory." The centre also appealed to the "international community to support the proposal to list terrorists, including Jaish-e-Mohammed Chief Masood Azhar, as a designated terrorist under the 1267 Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council."
8. The White House said in a statement: "The United States calls on Pakistan to end immediately the support and safe haven provided to all terrorist groups operating on its soil, whose only goal is to sow chaos, violence, and terror in the region."
9. Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs called the attack a matter of "grave concern". But in a brief statement, it added, "We strongly reject any insinuation by elements in the Indian government and media circles that seek to link the attack to the State of Pakistan without investigations."
10. This is the worst terror attack to take place in Kashmir since the start of the century. On October 1, 2001, three terrorists had rammed a Tata Sumo loaded with explosives into the main gate of the Jammu and Kashmir State Legislative Assembly complex in Srinagar, killing 38 people. In 2016, the army had carried out a cross-border surgical strike and destroyed several terror launch pads after 19 soldiers were killed in an attack on an army brigade headquarters in Uri.