Pakistani Rangers' role to the fore again

New Delhi: Security agencies have conveyed to the Centre that there was strong evidence to suggest that the two major terror incidents reported from the Jammu region on Tuesday were executed with assistance from state agencies in Pakistan.

While in the first incident seven Army personnel and three militants were killed in a fidayeen (suicide) attack at an Army base camp in Nagrota, in the second three militants were gunned down by the BSF when they infiltrated from the Samba sector using a tunnel.

Sources said there was enough evidence to suggest that there was active involvement of Pakistan’s security establishment in both the incidents.

For instance in the Samba infiltration bid it has now been revealed that the three militants managed to snake in across the border using an 80 metre long tunnel which originated in Pakistan. BSF sources claim that the tunnel could not have been constructed without support and knowledge of Pakistani Rangers and that in all probability they facilitated it.

Similarly, in the Nagrota case arms, ammunition and some other material with Pakistani markings was recovered from the three killed militants who are suspected to be from Jaish-e-Mohammed. Incidentally, Jaish was also responsible for a similar attack on the Pathankot Air Force base in January this year.