A mixed tanzeem, led by Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Tayabba, is planning to carry out multiple attacks on the vehicles/convoys of security forces in Jammu by using magnetic IEDs/sticky bombs. Similar attacks were earlier planned by the terror groups for the Valley, according to intelligence inputs.
The likely targets are vehicles moving from Rajouri to Jammu side including Jammu town. Other possible targets are vehicles of security forces moving from Poonch-Surankot via old Mughal Road to Shopian including in Shopian district, reads the input shared with stakeholders involved in counter-insurgency operations as also law and order duties.
Another input suggests that three-four LeT terrorists have managed to infiltrate through Kanachak (Jammu region) on August 13. “They would try to carry out some big attacks but due to tight security they are facing difficulties,” agencies warned through the inputs.
Reportedly, weapons have already been cached in Domana, Jammu and the terrorists are trying to extract the same.
A local terrorist Shahid Khurshid of the LeT and its affiliate The Resistance Front (TRF) along with foreign terrorists were noticed in Golpora area. “They might plan to snatch weapons and cause grenade attacks on security forces deployed in Pampore, Panthachowk, Lasjan Bridge and Nowgam Area.
Recently, inputs had also suggested that the terror groups are in the lookout to target temples in Jammu region to flare up communal passions.
The terrorists have already been able to carry out drone hits on the Jammu air base in the recent past. The case is being probed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) without much headway.
The shift in the terror tactic to target Jammu has been made by the jihadi groups as the security grid in the Valley is particularly difficult for the tanzeems to penetrate amid a strong security footprint, officials said.