MPD-2505 phone made in Pakistan | Photo credit: Twitter
Key points
- Investigative agencies recovered mobile phones, SIM cards, medicines and shoes made in Karachi
- The terrorists were in constant contact with their Pakistani handlers
- Massive search for the guide who helped the terrorists
New Delhi: New evidence after investigations into the Nagrota encounter case shows that four Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorists killed in the encounter were in constant contact with their handlers in Pakistan.
Sources told TOI’s Sanjay Khajuria that investigating agencies recovered some text messages believed to have originated from the terrorists’ handlers in Pakistan from the mobile phone recovered from the truck they were traveling in.
A text message shared with the media reads: “Kahan phnche, ya soorte haal hai. Koi mushkil toh nahi (Where have you gotten? How are things going there? I hope there are no problems so far. “
Cell phones made in Pakistan, recovered SIM cards
Security forces had recovered a large quantity of weapons and ammunition, including Pakistani-made digital radios and mobile phones (model MPD-2505), Pakistani SIM cards, wireless equipment, a GPS device and Pakistani-made shoes.
According to the TOI report, a guide is believed to have facilitated the entry of terrorists onto the Jammu-Pathankot highway from where they boarded a truck and investigating agencies have launched a massive manhunt to catch the guide.
Security forces also recovered Karachi-made medicines and other items that strongly suggest Pakistan’s involvement in the infiltration attempt.
New reports have further claimed that the person responsible for the murdered terrorists was Abdul Rauf Asgar, the brother of JeM founder Maulana Masood Azhar.
‘He sang Allah-O-Akbar, Islam Zindabad, Pak Zindabad, Jaish Zindabad’
Terrorists had infiltrated India from the Samba Sector on November 18-19 to carry out a Pulwama-scale terrorist attack on the orders of Azhar’s brother, who had received the green signal from Pakistan’s notorious spy agency. , Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
Terrorists infiltrated Indian territory in the Samba sector using a network of nullahs in the riparian zones of the border. They were then picked up in a truck near Jatwal.
The security forces who had cornered the terrorists in Ban Toll Plaza gave them the option to surrender, but they launched slogans of “Allah-O-Akbar, Islam Zindabad, Pakistan Zindabad and Jaish Zindabad” and began firing indiscriminately at the forces.