Terror attack in Gurdaspur, India

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Why didn't they let the army flush the terrorists? Why were the fatties of PP allowed to get themselves killed?

Punjab Police wanted to take responsibility. It was their post.

 

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Punjab attack: Terrorists were trained at Thailand-Myanmar border | Zee News
New Delhi: Pakistan's intelligence agency, Inter-Services Intelligence, trained the terrorists who attacked Dinanagar town of Gurdaspur district in Punjab on Monday.

Sources have told Zee Media, the ISI had trained six terrorists on the Thailand-Myanmar border for 10 days.

Out of the six, three terrorists attacked Punjab and were killed.

Two others were killed in Pakistan and the last one has been nabbed.

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday held Pakistan responsible for the July 27 Dinanagar terror attack, saying any strike by enemies will meet an effective and forceful response from Indian security forces.

Making a formal statement in the Rajya Sabha, the Home Minister said the central government was committed to rooting out terrorism from the country.

The minister gave details on how the terrorists crossed the international border and entered India.

"A preliminary analysis of the Global Positioning System (GPS) data indicates that the terrorists infiltrated from Pakistan through the area near Tash in Gurdaspur district, where the Ravi river enters Pakistan," Rajnath Singh said.

"It is also suspected that the same terrorists placed five Improvised Explosive Devices on the railway track near village Talwandi between Dinanagar and Jhakoladi which were subsequently defused," he added.

 

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Updated: July 31, 2015 07:10 IST
Strict anti-terror laws needed: Gill - The Hindu

There is an urgent need to have “very strict laws” to deal with terrorism, former Punjab chief K.P.S.Gill said on Thursday as he rejected criticism over the Army not being given the charge of the operation against terrorists in Gurdaspur.

Mr. Gill, who is credited with rooting out militancy in Punjab, said that India has been facing terrorism for long, but this level, at which the menace confronts the nation and the world, was not imagined.

“We need to have overall very strict laws to deal with terrorism which should embrace all aspects,” Mr. Gill, 81, said at a ‘meet the press’ programme here.

He said that TADA and other laws with stricter anti-terrorism provisions were enacted when Punjab had already crossed the dark days of militancy.

The former DGP suggested that special courts should be set up for expeditious disposal of terrorism-related cases as in many other countries.

“In our country, unfortunately, something which happened 20 years ago continues to drag on and becomes a matter of debate,” Mr. Gill said in an apparent reference to the hanging of 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict Yakub Memon.

He hailed the the Punjab police for the way they responded to the Gurdaspur terror attack, in which three terrorists were gunned down in a day-long operation.

Dismissing criticism over the Army not being given the charge of the operation against terrorists in Gurdaspur, he said:“Punjab police officers killed three terrorists but the political leadership is finding faults with the operation and making it a political issue.”

“When the Punjab Police takes charge of an operation, it does not think which political leadership is leading it... it is a part of Punjab Police’s training and the country is supreme (for them). This was shown in an exemplary manner,” he said.

“Army’s actual role is to fight an enemy force,” he said, adding that the Punjab Police was “quite capable” of handling the operation.-PTI

 

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Every effort made to conceal nationality of terrorists involved in Gurdaspur attack - The Hindu

Preliminary findings by security agencies in the Gurdaspur terror strike suggest that the masterminds made meticulous efforts to conceal the nationality and identity of the three terrorists involved in the fidayeen attack.

Following the 12-hour-long operation on Monday, the Punjab police seized three AK-47 rifles, one of which was fitted with a grenade launcher, and 19 magazines besides two GPS location trackers and grenades. The terrorists used armour-piercing bullets.

While a night-vision device of US make was also seized, five improvised explosive devices were found planted on rail tracks not far from the encounter site at the Dinanagar police station.

The body search of the slain terrorists revealed that tailor labels on their clothes had been deliberately removed. “Proof marks, which establish manufacturer’s identity and country of origin, were erased from the weapons carried by them. The grenades were of Chinese make,” said a security official, wondering how a US manufactured night-vision device landed in the hands of the terrorists.

The official said: “On several occasions in the past, we have seized medicines manufactured and supplied in Pakistan from terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir. However, interestingly, we did not find any such article this time,” said the official.

The bombs planted on the rail tracks had also been configured using select components. “Surprisingly, the batteries used in the devices did not carry any manufacturing tag. The bombs did not explode due to faulty wiring and were detected in time by a villager. Their components are being analysed,” said another official.

It is the pre-set coordinates in the GPS devices found on the terrorists which, according to the Union Home Ministry, revealed that they had infiltrated into India from Pakistan via Tash village in Gurdaspur, by crossing the trans-boundary Ravi river.

“It is an incontrovertible proof. We plan to share the findings with Pakistan once investigations into the terror attack are complete from our end,” said a senior Home Ministry official, adding that the Punjab police were making every efforts to establish the identity of the slain terrorists. The government is also planning to recommend bravery awards for all those Punjab police personnel who played a crucial role in containing the terror threat and eliminating the perpetrators in a fierce gunbattle.

 

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Gurdaspur terror attack: Army destroys rocket launcher | Zee News
Last Updated: Sunday, August 2, 2015 - 21:30
Gurdaspur: Army on Sunday destroyed a rocket launcher recovered from the dead Pakistani militants during the attack on Dina Nagar police station in the district, a week ago.

The DLR rocket launcher was destroyed at Makuara Pattan, near Ravi river along the Indo-Pak Border, a senior police officer said here.

Inspector General of Police (Border Range) Amritsar Ishwar Chand said the rocket launcher was placed in the same building of Dina Nagar police station, in the stacks of sand bags, where the encounter took place on Monday last.

The IGP said after receiving information about the weapon, the police and Army took it to Makuara Pattan and dumped it in the ground where experts destroyed it.

The IGP said the militants used the rocket launcher when they felt they were cordoned off and had no chance to escape.

He said preliminary investigations reveal that their targets were "very big". They first wanted to blow off Pathankot-Amritsar train, then they were to massacre passengers and then they had to kill the police personnel and their families after keeping them captive in the police station.

The gloves, which in the militants had in one of their hand, were made in Pakistan's Adiyas company, he said, adding that it further strengthened the theory that they came from Pakistan and were natives of that country.

 

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They were trained at Myanmar-Thailand border so what does it MEAN?

 

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Gurdaspur attack terrorists wore 'Made in Pak' gloves: Report | Zee News

New Delhi: In what further adds to the suspicion of Pakistan's role in Gurdaspur terror attack, a post-mortem report on the three fidayeens has revealed that one of them wore a glove that had 'Made in Pakistan' tag clearly imprinted on it, a newspaper report said Sunday.


According to a report published in the Hindustan Times, doctors in their post-mortem report on three Lashkar-e-Toiba militants killed in July 27 operation, have clearly mentioned that ‘made in Pakistan’ tag was found intact on a glove worn by one of the terrorists.

Also a Night Vision Device recovered from the terrorists is a US government property, that also brings their Afghan link in the light, the report added.

Police are considering it as another vital clue that links Gurdaspur attack to Islamabad.

Earlier this week, Home Minister Rajnath Singh had clearly said that the three attackers had infiltrated from Pakistan to carry out the strike, given the details from two Global Positioning System devices recovered from the militants.

However, Pakistan dismissed India's accusation, saying, "Pointing fingers without investigation is not a healthy trend”.

Giving details of the attack in Punjab, Rajnath Singh had said, "Preliminary analyses of GPS data indicates that the terrorists had infiltrated from Pakistan through the area near Tash in Gurdaspur district, where the Ravi river enters Pakistan."

It is also suspected, he said, that the same terrorists had planted five IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices) on the railway track near Talwandi village between Dinanagar and Jhakoladi, which were subsequently defused by the bomb disposal squad.

On July 27 three heavily-armed terrorists dressed in Army uniforms struck in Gurdaspur at around 5.30 am and stormed the police station, leading to a 12-hour gunbattle.

In the terror attack, three civilians, three Home Guards and one police officer lost their lives, he said, adding 10 civilians and seven security force personnel were also injured.

With PTI Inputs

 

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Every effort made to conceal nationality of terrorists involved in Gurdaspur attack - The Hindu

Preliminary findings by security agencies in the Gurdaspur terror strike suggest that the masterminds made meticulous efforts to conceal the nationality and identity of the three terrorists involved in the fidayeen attack.

Following the 12-hour-long operation on Monday, the Punjab police seized three AK-47 rifles, one of which was fitted with a grenade launcher, and 19 magazines besides two GPS location trackers and grenades. The terrorists used armour-piercing bullets.

While a night-vision device of US make was also seized, five improvised explosive devices were found planted on rail tracks not far from the encounter site at the Dinanagar police station.

The body search of the slain terrorists revealed that tailor labels on their clothes had been deliberately removed. “Proof marks, which establish manufacturer’s identity and country of origin, were erased from the weapons carried by them. The grenades were of Chinese make,” said a security official, wondering how a US manufactured night-vision device landed in the hands of the terrorists.

The official said: “On several occasions in the past, we have seized medicines manufactured and supplied in Pakistan from terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir. However, interestingly, we did not find any such article this time,” said the official.

The bombs planted on the rail tracks had also been configured using select components. “Surprisingly, the batteries used in the devices did not carry any manufacturing tag. The bombs did not explode due to faulty wiring and were detected in time by a villager. Their components are being analysed,” said another official.

It is the pre-set coordinates in the GPS devices found on the terrorists which, according to the Union Home Ministry, revealed that they had infiltrated into India from Pakistan via Tash village in Gurdaspur, by crossing the trans-boundary Ravi river.

“It is an incontrovertible proof. We plan to share the findings with Pakistan once investigations into the terror attack are complete from our end,” said a senior Home Ministry official, adding that the Punjab police were making every efforts to establish the identity of the slain terrorists. The government is also planning to recommend bravery awards for all those Punjab police personnel who played a crucial role in containing the terror threat and eliminating the perpetrators in a fierce gunbattle.

Why India is concealing identity of the attackers ?

 

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Lt.-Gen. K.J. Singh on Saturday honouring gateman Darshan Kumar who saved the lives of many a train passengers by detecting five planted IEDs on the railway track at Dinanagar in Gurdaspur district earlier this week.– Photo: PTI

The Indian Army on Saturday honoured two railway employees who averted a major tragedy by spotting live bombs planted by terrorists on a railway bridge near Dinanagar town in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district on July 27.

General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Command, Lt. Gen. K.J. Singh, felicitated the two brave hearts - gateman Darshan Kumar and Satpal, at a function in the Tiger Division near Jammu.

Satpal also received the Army Commander’s Commendation Card also, an army spokesman said.

“On 27 July, during anti-terrorist operations at Dinanagar, Gurdaspur, these two ‘Jagruk Hindustani’ were instrumental in saving the lives of train passengers by detecting five planted IEDs (improvised explosive devices) on the railway track from Dinanagar to Pathankot.

“Had it not been for their swift alertness and sense of responsibility, the local passenger train would have crossed over the IEDs,” the spokesman said.

Three terrorists, who had besieged Dinanagar town from 5-30 a.m. on Monday, had planned more casualties by wiring five live bombs on the railway track on a small bridge on the Pathankot-Amritsar railway section.

A tragedy was averted as alert railway staff detected the bombs just five minutes before a train loaded with passengers was to cross the bridge, five km from here. The bombs were plated near Parmanand railway station, five km from Dinanagar.

The passenger train was carrying over 250 people and the bombs were wired to the track on a small bridge over a rivulet.

All trains on the Pathankot-Amritsar section were stopped immediately by railway authorities. Seven people, including a police officer, three home guard personnel and three civilians lost their lives in the terror attack. The terrorists had an 11-hour long gun battle with security forces at the Dinanagar police station complex on Monday. - IANS

Why India is concealing identity of the attackers ?

According to reports, Pakistan has accepted NSA proposal to meet on August 23 .

 

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According to reports, Pakistan has accepted NSA proposal to meet on August 23 .

Pakistan has always agreed to such meetings. It is India who had been dragging her feet on such things.

Anyway the question remains why India is trying hard to conceal the Identity of the attackers?

 

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Gurdaspur terror attack: India approaches US for help in identifying seized Night Vision Device | Deccan Chronicle
PTI | August 04, 2015, 21.08 pm IST

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New Delhi: India has approached the US to help identify the Night Vision Device (NVD) used by the three terrorists who carried out the Gurdaspur attack even as investigators did not rule out the possibility of a reconnaissance of target areas being carried out.

Besides the NVD, a request has also been routed through Union Home Ministry seeking details of Global Positioning System (GPS), used by terrorists in reaching the police station at Dina Nagar where they were engaged by Punjab Police. The manufacturer of the device is based in the US, official sources said today.

The NVD bearing a marking that it belongs to the US government was recovered from the terrorists, the sources said, adding it was used as a telescope with the assault rifle to help them in identifying the target in dead of the night.


Informally, the FBI has assured Indian investigators that all assistance will be provided in this regard and even indicated that the NVD could have been snatched from allied troops fighting war in Afghanistan, the sources said.

For a closer cooperation on terror-related matters, India and the US have appointed personnel from their respective security agencies as part of the diplomatic staff at each other's Embassies.

The Indian investigators also sought details about the coordinates of GPS that was seized from the terrorists. It could help the probe agency to find out where the GPS was used initially or the country to where it was exported.

The GPS is generally used by travellers on trekking or army personnel in unfamiliar terrain. It connects a customer to a satellite and helps the traveller know the way to the destination.

Three terrorists, believed to be of Lashker-e-Taiba terror group, had sneaked in from Ravi river at the Punjab border on intervening night of July 26 and 27 and attacked a police station in Dina Nagar. Seven people including a Superintendent of Police were killed by the terrorists before they were neutralised by Punjab Police.

In the meantime, security agencies were looking into a possibility that the terrorists had been briefed in advance about the targets and someone could have possibly infiltrated and carried out a reconnaissance, the sources said.

The 'way points' marked in the GPS also showed Gurdaspur Civil Lines area as one of the targets of terrorists as it is a posh area with many senior officials staying there besides housing an office unit of the Army.

This could be possible only because of pre-fed information from someone who may have been tasked to do so, the sources said and did not rule out the possibility of the flourishing drug mafia being involved in the process.

Pakistan has always agreed to such meetings. It is India who had been dragging her feet on such things.

Anyway the question remains why India is trying hard to conceal the Identity of the attackers?

Like always India will present the evidence to the Pakistani Establishment.

 

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FBI offers to crack GPS devices obtained from terrorists in Gurdaspur & Udhampur - The Economic Times

By Aman Sharma, ET Bureau | 12 Aug, 2015, 08.25AM IST

NEW DELHI: The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has offered to crack the global positioning system (GPS) devices seized from the terrorists in Udhampur and Gurdaspur, NIA chief Sharad Kumar told ET. Details from the GPS may officially confirm Pakistan's role in both attacks.

"Some of the data has been erased from the GPS devices found on the dead terrorists in Gurdaspur. GPS devices used by Mohammad Naveed to sneak into India have also been found after the Udhampur attack. FBI has offered us expert help to crack the GPS devices," Kumar said.

Scientific evidence from FBI on GPS coordinates could help India conclusively prove that in both the incidents, terrorists had come from Pakistan, sources in the government said. NIA has been asked to compile a dossier on the Udhampur strike for the NSA-level talks with Pakistan expected later this month.

NIA will also be sending a letter rogatory through the court to Pakistan asking for confirmation of the address and family details of the captured terrorists in Udhampur, Mohammad Naveed.

Naveed could be flown to Delhi in a special aircraft and subjected to lie-detector tests as he has been constantly changing his statements and citing four different routes which he along with three other accomplices took to infiltrate into India.

 

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Gurdaspur terrorists came from Pakistan, govt gets conclusive proof | Zee News


New Delhi: The three terrorists, who carried out the Gurdaspur attacks, had come from Sargoda in Pakistan, and a pair of shoes recovered from the slain terrorists bore 'Cheetah' mark, a popular brand in that country.

According to the dossier prepared by India for handing over to Pakistan during the now-cancelled NSA-level talks, independent experts analysed the two GPS devices recovered from the slain terrorists, who killed seven persons in Gurdaspur on July 27.

The experts have found that on July 21, the GPS coordinates (32.161639 N, 72:42E) were observed near Sargoda of Pakistan on Canal Road near the main Shahpur-Sahiwal Road.

The same location also appeared as one undated entry. The experts have conclusively found that GPS-2 shows presence inside Pakistan, the dossier reads.

The insoles of one pair of shoes recovered from the killed terrorists bore "Cheetah" brand. The markings were scratched and inked in the other two pairs of shoes to conceal the brand name. Shoes of "Cheetah" brand are not available in India but it is a popular name in Pakistan.

Investigators have found that the three Pakistan-based terrorists entered into India after crossing the Ravi river from near Tash, close to Mastgarh village under Narot Jaimal Singh police station in Gurdaspur district.

The post-mortem of the killed terrorists was done by a Board of Doctors. No label/tag was found on any of their clothes other than on the gloves of one of the three terrorists as they had been removed deliberately to avoid identification. The gloves bore a 'Made in Pakistan' tag.

The disposable rocket launcher recovered from the Gurdaspur attackers carried Yugoslavia/Czech Republic markings while forensic analysis of cartridges recovered from the attackers traced their origins to China, Russia, Ukraine, and Czech Republic.

AK-56 rifles recovered from the three terrorists had markings removed, but forensic analysis has found them of Chinese design.

Analysis of GPS sets recovered from the attackers shows possible origins in Taiwan or the US. Sets could have been located in the UK sometime. Even IEDs planted by them had Duracell batteries not made in India.

The three terrorists had on July 27 attacked passengers in a moving bus and stormed a police station, killing seven people, including a superintendent of police. All the terrorists were gunned down after a day-long operation by Punjab Police and elite commandos of Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT).

 

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Tight vigil: Jawans patrolling the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir. File photo | Photo Credit: PTI
http://www.thehindu.com/news/nation...-in-kashmir-terror-attack/article18401919.ece
The militant killed has been identified as Fayaz Ahmed alias Setha who was wanted by the NIA in Udhampur terror case.

Two civilians and a policeman were killed in a militant attack in Kulgam district of south Kashmir on Saturday night, while one militant was killed in retaliatory action, police said.

One of the militants was killed, while another was injured in retaliatory firing by police, Director General of Police S.P. Vaid informed.

The militant killed has been identified as Fayaz Ahmed alias Setha who was wanted by the NIA in Udhampur terror case.

The militants, travelling in a car, opened fire at a police team which had gone to Mir Bazaar area to investigate a road accident, the DGP said.

He said the police also retaliated and even managed to snatch a pistol from one of the militants.

“Four bodies were found at the spot. Two of the deceased are civilians and one policeman has been martyred,” Vaid said.

He said the fourth deceased was a militant who was carrying a grenade and some ammunition.

“While one militant has managed to escape, we are following the blood trail of another who was injured in the police action,” the DGP added.