How Indian Forces Foiled Jaish Attack Planned By Masood Azhar’s Brother | India News

NEW DELHI: The four terrorists who were shot by security forces during an encounter in Jammu and cashmereNagrota on Thursday were commissioned by Pakistan’s spy agency ISI to carry out a similar suicide attack on Pulwama and the mission was headed by the brother of the Jaish-e-Muhammed chief, Masood Azhar, high-level government sources told the ANI news agency.
Sources revealed that Azhar’s brother Abdul Rauf Ashgar had selected four terrorists from the Shakargarh camp from the team in Pakistan near the border with India to carry out a “major terrorist attack”. Another high-ranking terrorist, Qazi Tarar, had helped plan the attack.
On Thursday morning, the security forces shot dead the four terrorists in the Jammu region of Nagrota. A huge cache of weapons and ammunition was recovered along with various incriminating evidence, originating in Pakistan.
According to sources, the terrorists had received suicide attack training in Pakistan and underwent specific drills to use available firepower and inflict maximum damage on Indian positions in the Kashmir valley.
The Jaish terrorists used a network of nullahs in the riverside border area to sneak into Indian territory in the Samba sector and were picked up in a truck near Jatwal, six kilometers from Samba towards Kathua in Jammu.

After infiltrating India, the terrorists were in constant contact with Ashgar and Muhammed Asgar Khan Kashmiri, who is the operational commander of the Jaish in Kashmir.
An encounter occurred after the truck in which the four men were hiding was intercepted by security forces at the Ban tollgate at 4:45 a.m.
According to the forces, the terrorists were raising slogans such as Allah-u-Akbar, Islam Zindabad, Pakistan Zindabad and Jaish zindabad when they were asked to surrender.

In August, TOI had reported that Indian intelligence received information about a meeting between the de facto ’emir’ of Jaish Ashgar and two senior ISI officials in Rawalpindi on August 20. Intelligence officials had confirmed to TOI that JeM had been making desperate attempts to carry out a major strike as the team has been furious and agitated by the intensified action against its terrorists in the Valley.
Earlier today, India summoned the Pakistani High Commissioner’s Charge d’Affaires and protested strongly against JeM’s attempts to carry out attacks in Jammu and Kashmir ahead of local elections there.

In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said India is “firmly and resolutely” committed to taking all necessary measures to safeguard its national security in the fight against terrorism.
On Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a review meeting with senior security officials in the wake of the Nagrota Encounter, and claimed that the security forces have thwarted his efforts by causing “great havoc and destruction.”

After the meeting, the Prime Minister tweeted: “The neutralization of 4 terrorists belonging to the Pakistan-based terrorist organization Jaish-e-Mohammed and the presence of a large cache of weapons and explosives with them indicates that their efforts to cause large Havoc and destruction have ever again been thwarted. ”
(With inputs from agencies)