The Border Security Force (BSF) found compelling evidence that the four Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists killed in the November 19 Nagrota encounter had traveled to Jammu and Kashmir from Pakistan with the discovery of a 200 meter long and nearly 8 meter deep underground tunnel professionally designed at the international border early Sunday.
The tunnel location, with a diameter of 12 to 14 inches on the Indian end, was almost 160 meters long from the international border and was estimated to be about 40 meters long on the Pakistani side. The tunnel, according to senior security officials, had recently been excavated and appeared to have been used for the first time by the four suicide bombers from Jaish.
The tunnel, with a diameter of 12 to 14 inches, is almost 160 meters from the international border. (Originally)
“It appears that adequate engineering effort has been put into the construction of the tunnel and the hand of the establishment is quite evident,” said a senior counterterrorism official on condition of anonymity.
With the help of a Taiwanese-made Garmin handheld eTrex 20X Global Positioning System (GPS) device carried by the terrorists, Indian security agencies and the BSF were able to trace the exact route that the jihadists followed after entering India. through the tunnel and board a truck 12 kilometers from the border. The data was recovered from the GPS device despite the terrorists doing their best to destroy it before the security forces killed them.
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While the location of the tunnel exit in India is at latitude 32. 45648 N and longitude 75.121815 E, the entry point into Pakistan is near three Ranger outposts named Chak Bura, Rajab Sahid and Asif Sahid . The tunnel was detected by a team of seven BSF personnel led by Deepak Rana from 48 battalions who conducted a search between 5.40am and 7.50am on Sunday morning.
The underground tunnel was difficult to locate as its mouth had been carefully concealed and meticulously covered with dirt and wild vegetation with Pakistani sandbags with Engro urea fertilizer that were used to fortify and reinforce the infiltration route of the Jaish terrorists.
The data collected from the GPS indicates that the terrorists entered India right next to the boundary pillar 189 and close to the BSF Regal border post, which is located near the pillar 193. The first crossing point on the GPS is almost one kilometer away. from the border. The terrorists then walked approximately 12 kilometers to National Highway 44 after bypassing an army camp and a railroad track, and boarded the truck around midnight on November 19.
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Security agencies have been able to trace the exact route with all the crossing points to the village of Jatwal along the road. The truck then took them to Nagrota, where the four were shot dead in an intelligence-led operation. Repeated attempts to capture one of the terrorists failed as Jaish’s assassins had been trained as commandos.
While the intelligence agencies are now trying to decipher the recovered mobiles of the terrorists, the security agencies now have infallible evidence to catch Pakistan and those responsible for the Jaish attackers. India will also file a strong protest with the Pakistani Rangers, who allowed the infiltration under their watch.
Although the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is expected to provide relief to Pakistan by removing it from the Gray List in February 2021, the evidence collected by India clearly shows that Islamabad continues to sponsor terrorism against India with its deep state hosting groups. outlaws such as JeM, whose entire leadership is based in Bahawalpur.
According to officials familiar with the development, the Narendra Modi government plans to prepare a full dossier on the botched attack and send it to all friendly countries and financial institutions.
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