Vishwa Thacker – Mumbai Uncensored, 13th February 2022
Today marks three years of One of the deadliest attacks in Kashmir, the Pulwama attack. India lost 40 of her Central Reserve Police Force personnel.
On the 14th of February 2019, a suicide bomber rammed a class full of explosives into a convoy carrying around 25,00 CRPF personnel in Kashmir.
One of the biggest terrorist organisations of Pakistan, Jaish-e-Mohammed took the responsibility and also identified the attacker- a local Kashmiri man who joined the organisation in 2018.
The suicide bomber was identified as 22-year-old Adil Ahmad Dar. Within seconds of the crash at 3 pm, the explosion was big enough to lay a heap of metal on the ground.
The attack was the deadliest in its thirty years old insurgency period. The spokesperson of the NIA said that in order to identify the vehicle used for the blast, they had to gather all the remaining pieces and put them together.
“A Maruti Eeco vehicle having Chassis number MA3ERLF1SOO183735 Engine G12BN164140 was sold to Mohammad Jaleel Ahmed Haqqani, a resident of Heaven Colony, Anantnag in the year 2011. It subsequently exchanged hands seven times and finally reached Sajjad Bhat, son of Mohammad Maqbool Bhat, resident of Bijbehara, district Anantnag, who had acquired the vehicle on February 4. Sajjad was a student of Siraj-ul-Uloom, Shopian,” the spokesperson said.
The investigation suggested that the vehicle was carrying 300 kilograms of explosives, including 80 kilograms of RDX.
Following the attack, the whole of India mourned. Various strikes and bandhs against Pakistan were organised. State funerals were held in personnels’ respective natives. The FATF put Pakistan on the ‘grey list’. The customs duty on all Pakistani goods imported to India was raised to 200%. A huge protest was held outside the United Kingdom outside the Pakistan High Commission by Indians. The Indian Film and Television Directors Association also announced a ban on Pakistani artists in films and music produced in India.
This attack led the Indian government to carry out a world-famous airstrike on Pakistan in a matter of a few days.
