No intelligence failure in Pulwama attack: Government in Parliament

Government on Wednesday said there was no intelligencefailure in the Pulwama attack.

On being asked whether the reasons of Pulwama attack was afailure of intelligence, G. Kishan Reddy, Minister of State in the Ministry ofHome Affairs in Lok Sabha replied, “Jammu and Kashmir is affected byterrorism sponsored and supported from across the border for the last three decades.However, owing to the policy of zero tolerance towards terrorism and sustainedaction against the terrorists by the security forces, a large number ofterrorists have been neutralized during the past few years.”

   

He further added, “All agencies are working in acoordinated manner and the intelligence inputs are shared among variousagencies on a real-time basis. The investigation by NIA into the Pulwama attackso far has resulted in identifying the conspirators, suicide attacker and thevehicle provider.”

On 14 February this year, 40 Central Reserve Police Forces(CRPF) personnel were killed in a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) orchestrated attack inSouth Kashmir’s Pulwama district.

The incident took place when a CRPF convoy, consisting ofaround 2,500 personnel, was attacked by a suicide bomber who rammed a car ladenwith explosives into one of the buses on the Jammu-Srinagar highway.

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