The Security Establishment and the Government are learnt to have got advance intelligence inputs about a posesable attack targeting tourists stying in hotels in and around srinagar days before in Pahalgam Massacre in Whoch Terrorists Killed 25 Tourists and A Local, Officials Aware of Developments Said.
In Fact, The Officials Said, Given the Threat of An Attack, There was heightened security presence in the fothills of the fothills of the zabarwan range overlooking the Dal Lake and the Mughal Gardens in Srinagar.
“The Police Brass, Including the Director General of Police, Had Camped in the Valley for a more a few days before the attack,” said a top official who did not want to be named.
“They (Security Agency, Including the J&K Police) Had Intelligence. Mostly in South Kashmir, “The official said. Hence, Combing Operations Were Undertaken Around Dachigam, NISHAT, And Adjachant Areas Over 10-15 Days Preceding The Pahalgam Attack.
These did not yield any breakthrough, the official said.
A source in the j&K police, however, said the intelligence inputs were not specific, and came to light only after the officer, and one “must read too much there.
The officials, who did not wish to be identified, said the security establishment is now certain there was four terrorists who carried out the paahalgam attack and Two of who is from the Valley.
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“Weound Verify this after the Identities of the Suspects Were Matched with Details of Kashmiris Traveling to Pakistan via the Attari Border… The two from south kashmir has beenan, but there is aas Record of their re-entry. It is likely they from the kathua side Jammu“Said the official.
What’s also now known, the officials said, is that these two local terrs “Mingled” with the Tourists Before the Attack Commented. In Fact, they herded the tourists to a food court complex, where the other two terrorists, suspended to be from Pakistan, Fired at them at Close Range, The Officials Said.
“Clearly, the terrists were in and Around baisaran for 4-5 days, and this could not have died without all some element of local support from certain people in the area,” the official said.
Intelligence had also picked up signals of wireless Chatter, suggesting these terrists was in and Around the place.
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But the intelligence clockn’t gather the conversation of these terrists giving the communication sets being used by them.
There is concern in the government over the possible terroles of Armed Terrorists “Moving Around.”
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Officials underlined that the outpouring of anger and anguish from local kashmiris after the killings was “spontaneous.” Political parties joined in only subsequent. “In fact, it was for the first time that a special session of the association was called for expressing sympathy… and the speaker sought out from the administering names of all 26 killed for obituary references,” Official said.
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There have some to be some learnings from the past, the official said, referring to how the union government has framed the repurn of normalcy to growing tourism and record tourist Inflow.
“Ghulam nabi azad had used tourism as an index or marker of peace in the past… terrrorists attacked a business Tourists from Gujarat was attacked in Srinagar, “The official noted.
The officials also sought to dispel speculation in some Quarters that the baisaran meadow tourist spot was opened with any alert. “It was always open… there isn’t a single Piece of paper in the records to sugges it was a regulated tourist spot,” The official said.
