After 15 years in the history of terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir, it is believed that liquid explosives have returned. Recently, a drone coming from Pakistan crossing the international border in Jammu dropped three bottles of white matter. Officials gave this information on Sunday.
Dilbag Singh, Director General of Police, Jammu and Kashmir, while talking to the media in Jammu recently indicated that some chemical explosives were found, which have been sent to the forensic laboratory for examination. Officials said preliminary investigations indicated it could be trinitrotoluene (TNT) or nitroglycerin, commonly used in dynamite, but final reports are awaited.
He said that on February 24 last month, a white colored substance was found in three bottles of one liter each in a consignment dropped by a drone from Pakistan. After a thorough search, the police recovered these three bottles along with an Improvised Explosive Device (ID), arms and ammunition and detonators, officials said.
He said that the consignment was probably brought to Kashmir for smuggling for terrorist incidents or to be used in the crowded market of Jammu. He said that Jammu is the target of terrorist groups operating from Pakistan and these terrorist groups want to create communal conflict here. He further said that till now the Jammu and Kashmir Police has foiled four such attempts. Officials have not ruled out the possibility that such explosives may have been dropped by drones in the Kashmir Valley. According to intelligence reports, terrorists may have been successful in delivering such explosives.
Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI provides strategic support to banned organizations such as Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed and Hizbul Mujahideen and the agency has adopted the method of sending weapons through drones to help these organizations. It is noteworthy that terrorists used liquid explosives in South Kashmir in the year 2007, but since then it has not been seen in Jammu and Kashmir for nearly a decade.