Indian intelligence and security agencies have identified that terrorist groups targeting India are focusing their efforts on using the Sialkot-Shakargarh and Bhimber-Samani sectors, which have been used in the past by these groups to infiltrate India.
The Pakistan-based outlaw Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) is expected to use both sectors to infiltrate terrorists through the Line of Control (LoC) in the coming months, intelligence reports reviewed by HT, with the help of the remains of the former Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami (HuJI) that are still operational in the area and are targeting Jammu and southern Kashmir.
According to a dossier drawn up by Indian security agencies, these channels have been used in the past with terrorists involved in the army camp of Nagrota (November 2016), Sujwan (February 2018), Jhajjar Kotli (September 2018) and the Nagrota toll attack (January) having entered India through this channel, using the Bein nullah at Shakargarh to cross J&K.
The record notes that Kashif Jan, Irfan Jhangvi and Shahid Latif, who coordinated the terrorist attack on Pathankot air base in 2016, were actively involved in launching terrorists into India from Dehira and Sarjal in Shakargarh. Several JeM terrorists have infiltrated India via the same route, including Umar and Usman, sons of JeM boss Mazood Azhar, his older brother and main defendant in the 1999 IC-814 kidnapping, Azhar Ibrahim, bodyguard JeM’s de facto leader Mufti Rauf Asghar, Mohammed Ismail, and an explosives trainer at Balakot camp, Rasheed Ghazi. All these high profile terrorists infiltrated India in 2018.
In January, senior JeM commanders Azhar Ibrahim and Masood Azhar’s son Abdullah are known to have monitored the activities of the terrorist group on the launch pads in the Sialkot sector and since February the regular movement of the jaish terrorist cadres.
Another Jaish agent, Abdul Manan, aka Doctor, is also quite active in Sarjal in Shakargarh, according to the record. He was one of the key conspirators in the Nagrota Toll Plaza attack and works with a Pakistani Indian fugitive from Pulwama, Ashiq Ahmed Nangroo. A truck driver by profession, Nangroo is responsible for smuggling weapons from the Sialkot sector and moving along the Jammu-Samba-Pathankot highway in the past.
The unique topography of the Bhimber-Samani sector allows Pakistani terrorists easy access to Jammu-Rajauri-Shopian (Mughal Road) and allows them to use this axis to carry out attacks in Jammu, Rajauri and Reasi and also allows them a route to seize southern Kashmir, which is always boiling.
To push back infiltrators, the Pakistani deep state has reactivated the networks of former HuJI terrorist Nassarullah Masood Langryal, who is working through his key HuJI operatives Mohammed Imran Zaffarwal of Bhimber in occupied Kashmir and Tariq Bhai of Narowal in Pakistan. Punjab, based on intelligence input. Langryal is also known to be in contact with a PoK-based HuJI commander.
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According to the dossier, given that the Taliban is its ideological brother Deobandi, the JeM has moved around 300-350 cadres for weapons training from the Balakot and Peshawar camps in Pakistan to the Taliban-run camps in the Kunar provinces. , Nuristan and Jalalabad along the Durand Line.
The dossier says that the terrorist cadre movement in Afghanistan could be to escape Balakot’s type of Indian airstrike in the future or under pressure from Pakistan, which is seeking to be whitelisted at the FATF East Paris plenary. month.
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