Intelligence warns government of ISI terror strategy to enter J&K Valley

Latest intelligence inputs have warned the Modi government of Pakistan ISI’s fresh terror strategy where the Pakistani spy agency has brought a batch of 30 cadres from Peshawar and adjoining areas to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) for facilitating their entry into the Indian territory to carry out attacks over the next one month. As per the latest inputs, the ISI has once again joined hands with Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), with which it had fallen out after an unsuccessful assassination attempt on former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf a few years ago, to carry out attacks in the Valley. All three terror groups operating in the Valley — the Hizbul Mujahideen (HuM), the JeM and the LeT — have been brought under the ISI fold to carry out the subversive designs.

The brief is to enter J&K before the routes in the upper reaches close down due to heavy snowfall in the next one month, warn the inputs.

The ISI has arranged a joint meeting of the th-ree terror outfits under the supervision of ISI handler Shaukat Khan, alias Abu Suleman, the sources said, quoting the latest inputs.

It is the re-emergence of the JeM within the ISI fold that is also becoming a matter of fresh concern for the security establishment in New Delhi which has been worried about the stepping up of local militancy in Jammu and Kashmir this year.

The 30-men strong terrorist group coming from Peshawar under the guidance of ISI is learnt to have been kept at a launching pad across the LoC in the PoK region with the instructions to carry out terror attacks in the Kashmir Valley over the next one month.

It ma be recalled that Wednesday’s attack at an Army camp in Tangdhar in Kashmir, near the LoC, was carried out by three heavily-armed militants of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad.