One year after Pulwama attack, radicalization on in full swing
Live MintNew Delhi: A year after 40 Central Reserve Police Force personnel were killed in a suicide blast in Kashmir’s Pulwama district, security and intelligence experts continue to flag concerns about security forces being soft targets in such conflict zones. According to intelligence inputs, reviewed by Mint, terrorists have been instructed to carry out grenade and fidayeen attacks in Shopian, Badgam and Pulwama districts of Kashmir, and in Bathindi and Narwar in Jammu, besides the sensitive Sunjwan Army camp, which was attacked by JeM terrorists in February 2018. The intelligence inputs come close on the heels of encounters between security forces and terrorists at Pulwama, Shopian and Awantipora in south Kashmir. The last major terror strike in Kashmir was on 14 February 2019, when 40 CRPF personnel were killed by a JeM suicide bomber – Adil Ahmad Dar -- in Pulwama.