Attacks on Army, CRPF camps joint plan by LeT, Jaish

February 15, 2018 08:41

Investigations so far into the terrorist attack at an army camp at Sunjuwan in Jammu and the bid to storm a CRPF camp at Karan Nagar in Srinagar a day later indicate that the two attacks were synchronised as part of a joint strategy by Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashker-e-Tayiba to hit security forces simultaneously in the two regions.

It is rare for two fidayeen attacks on security camps to be staged simultaneously. The purpose of a fidayeen attack, which is usually made to stretch over 2-3 days as terrorists engage counter-forces with all the ammunition at their disposal, is to grab undivided media attention.

However, there was a departure this time with the Sunjuwan attack by Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists followed by LeTs Karan Nagar strike just a day later, a senior J&K police officer said.

The agencies say Jaish and LeT commanders operating in south Kashmir areas like Tral and Pulwama decided to join hands and stage a fidayeen attack in Jammu region and immediately follow it up with another suicide strike at a CRPF camp in Srinagar.

While the Jammu mission was assigned to Jaish, LeT was chosen to execute the Srinagar strike. The near-simultaneous strikes in Jammu and Kashmir regions were possibly to divide the attention of the agencies and counter-forces, said a senior officer of J&K police. All the five terrorists involved in the two strikes - 3 in Jammu and 2 in Srinagar - were Pakistanis.

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