12th Day of Army truck attack: Perpetrators still at large.

GNS ONLINE RAJOURI 
SHYAM SOOD 

RAJOURI, MAY 01:–J&K police, Army, & Central investigate/intelligence agencies leaving no stone unturned to trace and eliminate the perpetrators of the terror attack on an Army vehicle in the Bhimber Gali area in Poonch district on April 20.
But, even after the 12th day of the gruesome attack on Army truck, the terrorists involved in the attack are still at large despite intensive search operation launched by the Security Forces in large areaa in Rajouri and Poonch districts.
During the last 20 months, 6 terror attacks took place in Poonch and Rajouri districts in which 19 soldiers and 9 civilians were killed while only two terrorists (fidayeen involved in an attack on RR camp at Pargal, Darhal in Rajouri) were killed.
For the last about 18 months the terror incidents, air-dropping of weapons, ammunition, & cash through drones, infiltration by Pakistan-trained terrorists, presence of 8-10 terrorists in Rajouri-Poonch and new recruitment in terror fold by them are some indications that Pakistan wanted to revive militancy in both the districts.
But the intelligence network failed to detect their activities and the terrorists succeeded to kill 9 soldiers in Bhata Dhurian forests on October 11 & 16 in 2021, killed two civilians on December 16 in Rajouri’s Phalayana area, and seven people in Dhangri village on January 1 & 2 and five soldiers in an attack on truck on April 20.
DGP J&K, Dilbagh Singh, while supervising an anti-terror operation in Darhal tehsil of Rajouri district on April 28, claimed to have crack the terror plot in collaboration with Army and have arrested 6 OGWs who have provided, shelter, food, & logistic support to terrorists responsible for an attack on Army truck.
Five soldiers attained martyrdom and one was seriously injured in this terror attack when the terrorists ambushed the truck near Bhata Dhurian on Jammu-Poonch highway.
People’s Anti-Fascist Front (PAFF) reportedly claimed the attack and according to DGP, two groups comprising 4-6 terrorists, including Pakistani, ambushed Army truck in a well planned attack executed after recee of the area with the help of arrested OGWs.
In another success during the ongoing investigation into Army truck attack, the police detained a Moulvi, a resident of Poonch district & presently working in a Madrassa in Jammu who was reportedly in touch with Pakistan-based terror handlers to coordinate the truck attack.
Further questioning of Moulvi is in progress.