Fidayeens killed in Tuesday's attacks may belong to JeM, some still on the run, say police
Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) fidayeens are the new force multipliers of the Pakistan intelligence apparatus to keep the pot boiling in Jammu and Kashmir. A 17-member group of Jaish fidayeens were pushed in from Pir Panjal into Jammu and Kashmir to replenish the militant ranks in July following the drubbing of the cadres in the valley.
Sources said the militants later took the Poonch-Shopian route to enter into south Kashmir region where they were distributed to different areas. Three of the fidayeens were killed when they attacked the District Police Lines Pulwama on August 26. Eight security force men —four each from CRPF and Jammu and Kashmir Police — were killed and six others injured in the encounter.
Sources said the highly trained fidayeens had a job cut out to carry out a suicidal attack on the camps and vital installations to boost the morale of the militants operating in Kashmir.
"The inputs are these fidayeens (killed on Tuesday) were from the same group. Three of them were eliminated at Pulwama. Things are to be verified. But I think this group infiltrated in the month of July-August from Shakargah side. But we will verify things," said Munir Ahmad Khan, Inspector General of Police, Kashmir Zone.
Police said most of the fidayeens of this group were killed but still some of them are on the run and may carry the suicidal attack again. "If we make a rough estimate I think they are left with six to seven terrorists who we are looking for," said Khan. More than 152 militants including top commanders of the Hizbul Mujahedeen and Lashkar-e-Tioba have been eliminated by the security forces this year so far. This has hit the morale of the militants who have gone hiding to avoid being killed.
Sensing the trouble, Pakistani security and intelligence agencies have revived Jaish to help raise the morale of militants and keep the pot boiling in Kashmir. "CRPF has neutralised six highly trained and motivated terrorists of Jaish -e- Mohammad within span of 40 days. It is worth to mention that CRPF neutralised three JeM terrorists at DPL Pulwama on August 26, 2017," said a CRPF spokesman
Founded by Moulana Masood Azhar, one of the three militants released in exchange of passengers of the Indian Airlines flight IC 814 in 1999, Jaish-e-Mohammad has been the deadliest group only second to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). But after 2001, security forces had managed to break the back of Jaish by eliminating its top brass including Gazi Baba, the mastermind of the Parliament attack which prompted New Delhi to mobilise Indian army and launch Operation Parakaram.
Jaish has been pushed to margins after the security forces blew the lid off the conspiracy to revive the outfit in the north Kashmir last year. First, it was the arrest of Pakistani commander Sadiq Gujjar in February 2016 that hit Pakistan's plan to revive Jaish.
Pakistani handlers later pushed another Jaish commander Abdul Rehman along with four other militants from Machil sector to recruit people in Baramulla. But Rehman too was arrested which hit Pakistan's plan to revive Jaish. The revival was again visible when security forces killed two of its commanders in Saria Bala locality of Srinagar in May 2016.
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