The Jammu and Kashmir police have arrested two locals in connection with the April 22 Sunjwan attack in Jammu, which was “carried out by two Pashto-speaking fidayeens of the Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM)“ and was aimed at “scuttling Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Jammu visit”.
“The two Pashto-speaking terrorists used a mobile phone of Shafiq Ahmad Sheikh from Pulwama’s Tral to call his ‘commander’ across the border. Sheikh was instructed to identify an establishment of security forces. The attack was aimed at inflicting maximum casualties so that the VVIP visit does not happen,” Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Mukesh Singh said.
He said both the terrorists seemed to be freshly infiltrated and were picked up from Samba in a vegetable truck. “Sheikh has told the police that they [terrorists] were neither speaking Kashmiri nor Hindi nor Dogri. They spoke Pashto, which suggested they might either be from Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa or Afghanistan. However, a prior tip-off provided by intelligence helped the security forces to confine them and deter them from carrying out any major attack,” ADGP Singh said.
