Three years after the Pulwama terror attack, a joint statement of the four foreign ministers specifically condemned the 2008 Mumbai 26/11 and 2016 Pathankot airbase attacks. The four Quartet partners strongly condemn the use of terrorist proxies for cross-border terrorism and demand that the perpetrators of terrorist attacks be brought to justice. The 26/11 terrorist attack was the Pathankot attack by the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist groups. Both Punjab-based groups have deep ties to the deep state in Pakistan, and their only goal is to target India in the name of Kashmir and to radicalize the Indian hinterland through local proxies.
While Minister QUAD did not name Pakistan as Mumbai and Pathankot, the Pulwama attack on 14 February 2019 was JeM’s multinational terror factory in Bahawalpur, Pakistan, run by brothers Masood, Rauf and Ammar Alvi The last major attack. The attack led Narendra Modi’s government to retaliate against Jem by destroying his terror camp in Jabatop, Balakot, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan, February 26, 2019 . Although the exact number of terrorists killed in Balakot is not known, more than 300 religious militants were found at the training camp the day before the attack, according to high-resolution photos taken inside the camp.
Post Pulwama attack, the Indian security forces and the Jammu and Kashmir police got into action and to date, eight terrorists including the Pulwama suicide bomber have been neutralized, seven have been arrested and are facing trial in the NIA court in Jammu. Former Pulwama resident and now a Jaish operative based in Occupied Kashmir, Ashiq Nengroo, and the infamous Alvi brothers are still to face Indian justice.
While the Modi government has been focusing on Pakistan-based terror groups since 2014, the JeM and LeT terror factories are running at full speed and inspired by the path shown by the Taliban, which devalued and eventually forced the then US-led multinational force Leaving Afghanistan after two decades of fighting. Although the Taliban still wants to control Afghanistan, its rise has led to increased confidence levels among local jihadists in Pakistan and India. Islamic radicalization is on the rise in the Indian subcontinent as well as in other parts of the world.
Masood Azhar-led JeM has been targeting India since its formation in 1999 after IC-814 hijacked Kandahar, a Taliban-ruled Afghanistan launch a major attack. The Ayodhya temple succeeded, it would cause huge community fires and tear apart the fabric of society. This is exactly what the deep state in Pakistan is aiming for and the production target of operating terror factories in Muridek, Lahore and Bahawalpur.
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