Alert and vigilant, IAF puts airbase on orange alert after intelligence inputs of possible terror attacks in J&K

Srinagar, September 25: After receiving intelligence inputs on potential suicidal terror attack in and around Jammu and Kashmir, Indian Air Force (IAF) has put its airbase on orange alert. Srinagar, Avantipur, Jammu, Pathankot and Hindan airbases are put under orange alert by IAF after monitoring the movements of terrorists by the intelligence agencies. According to the intelligence inputs, Pakistani Army has recruited about 60 war-toughened Afghan fighters who would be pushed across the border to carry out attacks on security forces in Jammu and Kashmir.

 

Examining a thorough security arrangement, IAF issued an orange alert which is the second-highest level of alert second only to Red alert which, if issued, would involve the closing of schools and restriction on movements in airbases. The senior officers are examining security arrangements around the clock to tackle the threat. This came two days after the COAS (Chief of Army staff) General Bipin Rawat said that Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) camp in Pakistan was destroyed by the IAF in February and that it has been reactivated by Pakistan.

Balakot terror camp reactivated

Army Chief Bipin Rawat addressed the media from the officers’ training academy in Chennai on September 23 and said that Balakot has been reactivated very recently by Pakistan. He further added, "This shows that Balakot was affected and it had been damaged and destroyed which is why people had gotten away from there and now it has been reactivated."

The Army Chief also said, "Why must we keep repeating the Balakot airstrike? Why not keep the other side guessing as to what we will do? Why not beyond that?" The COAS General Bipin Rawat informed that Pakistan has violated the ceasefire and keeps pushing terrorists into our territory and exposed Pakistan.

Pakistan training terrorist in war-torn Afghanistan

According to reports, a dozen terrorits will be carrying out attacks using suicidal jackets or weapons in the region. They will be trained in war-torn Afghanistan and then received by Pakistani Army in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. These trained terrorists will then, the inputs show, will be transported to launch pads for infiltration in Kashmir to send them across the border in India.

According to the alert prepared with the intelligence inputs, ISI had meetings with multiple fighter groups in Afghanistan's Badakhshan province where it selected the fighters. They would, the alert shows, leave the province by September 21. The terrorists would try to infiltrate in small groups possibly taking multiple routes in a gap of 24-48 hours, the agencies suspect.