JAMMU, Aug 30: Two days before the deadly attack in DPL Pulwama, the Intelligence Bureau had shared two specific inputs with the security forces claiming that heavily armed and trained fidayeen attackers of Maulana Masood Azhar-led Jaish-e-Mohammed had infiltrated from Pakistan and their targets were camps of military and other security forces, Times of India reports said.
The first input, shared on August 23 claimed that seven JeM suicide attackers have entered India through the line of control (LoC) at Poonch on the intervening night of August 16-17 and have split into two groups — of four and three members, It added that one group was headed towards Jammu, while another was going to Srinagar, reports said.
The second IB communique, sent to ground forces on August 24, two days before the Pulwama attack, informed that four heavily armed JeM attackers had successfully infiltrated into the Jammu sector via Shakargarh in Narowal (Pakistani Punjab) to Gurdaspur on Indian side, on the intervening night of August 16-17, TOI report further added.
This means that out of eleven Militants, 8 are still hidding in J&K and Punjab and whereas three others have been neutralized in DPL Pulwama attack.
8 JeM Militants Hiding In J&K, Punjab; Planning Attacks Like DPL Pulwama
