NSA Ajit Doval briefs PM Modi regarding the multiple terror attacks in Kashmir Valley

Srinagar: National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval briefed the Prime Minister regarding the multiple terror attacks in the Valley. Sources said the PM was informed that there was a direct link between the spate of terror attack and the huge turnout during the two rounds of polling in the State.

Intelligence agencies in their situation report to the NSA have informed that terror operatives sitting across the border are clearly not happy with the manner in which the democratic process is unfolding in the Valley and are rattled by the massive turnout.

The pre-dawn “fidayeen” attack and subsequent firefight occurred near the Army’s 31 Field Ordinance Regiment base at Kandarwan, Mohura, a heavily militarised area close to the LoC.

Army and police sources said the fighting stopped in six and a half hours, but Army reinforcements with the loc-al police’s special operations group and the CRPF has begun a massive search operation.

Two Army helicopters were pressed into service for surveillance of the area, reports said.

Reports from Uri said the militants involved in the attack on the Army camp also fired at guards of a local police officer.

Police officials said that the militant group involved in the attack at the Army camp might have recently sneaked into J&K from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

Asked if it was a “fidayeen” attack, an officer of the Army’s 19 Infantry Division said, “It looks it was like that.” He added that an Army barracks inside the camp had caught fire during the fighting.

The Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service and trade between the two parts of Kashmir are conducted through this point of the LoC in the Valley. Polling in Uri and 15 other areas is due in the third of the five-phased Assembly elections on December 9.