Six Year Since Pulwama: Revisiting the 2019 Attack and India’s Retaliation

Six years have passed since India experienced the horrific Pulwama Attack 2019, in which an armed suicide bomber used an explosive-laden van to strike terror against Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) soldiers death traveling on February 14th 2019 between Jammu and Srinagar. Forty soldiers died as result. The incident took place February 14th 2019.

Pulwama Attack What passed on February 14?

On February 14th of 2019, while travelling along National Highway between Jammu and Srinagar on National Highway 420, an explosion claimed 40 dogfaces' lives when Adil Ahmad Dar, an agent for Pakistani revolutionist group Jaish-e-Mohammad drove his truck loaded with snares directly into their convoy and caused it to collide head on with it causing massive explosion. Adil Ahmad Dar also used explosives from this truck.

Investigations revealed that the Pulwama massacre was orchestrated by JeM, which sent its agents for training at terror schools in Afghanistan.

The principal accused, Mohammad Umar Farooq, has also been to Afghanistan to learn explosives between 2016-17. He later escaped to India via India's International Border at the Jammu-Samba sector to assume the control of Jaish-e-Mohammad as the Commander of Pulwama.

Umar and the Pakistani and local friends had planned and prepared the Pulwama terrorist attack on security forces by using IEDs. After obtaining the explosives and explosives, a Maruti EECO car was purchased in the year 2019 to carry out the assault and was stored at the doorstep of the home of the suspects.

India's response in the wake of Pulwama's attack

India is strongly condemning it was adamantly against the "cowardly attacks" on the security forces in Pulwama and described the attack to be "heinous and despicable." In a statement, the government is determined to combat terror it has also urged Pakistan cease supporting terror groups operating on their territory.