Amid threat of Lashkar attack, IEDs found in Punjab and Kashmir, security agencies on high alert

New Delhi: The country’s capital is on high alert amid fears of a terrorist attack by Pakistan’s terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba in Delhi. Meanwhile, two IEDs have been found in Punjab and Kashmir. However, officials have not linked the recovery of the IED to warnings of a terrorist plot. But at this time the discovery of these IEDs has increased the concern of the security agencies.

In Punjab, an IED was found in a suspicious bag near Raiya police post in Amritsar on Friday. Police said that a bomb disposal squad was immediately sent to the spot and the IED was defused. India Today quoted SSP Sohail Kasim Mir as saying, ‘A suspicious bag was seen near Police Chowk. The bomb disposal squad was immediately called, and they confirmed it to be an IED. Later, as per protocol, it was deactivated.

On the same day, another IED was found in Safapora in Ganderbal district of Kashmir. The bomb disposal squad of the Army and Jammu and Kashmir Police detected the IED and defused it within a few hours. This is the third IED found in North Kashmir in the last one week. On Thursday, one IED was found on Tangmarg Road and one was found in Baramulla.