00:00The story that's breaking at the moment, a terror attack in Kulgaam in the Kashmir Valley.
00:06Three CRPF jawans have been injured and the encounter has only just concluded.
00:13White-born terrorists opened fire at a CRPF post.
00:16All three CRPF jawans are currently out of danger.
00:20Security has been strengthened across southern Kashmir.
00:24The terrorists are absconding, but the search operation is underway.
00:30That's the big story that's coming in at the moment from Jammu and Kashmir.
00:34Remember, the last terror strike that was reported was when migrants were targeted more than four months ago.
00:42Meir Fareed is our man on the spot.
00:44Meir, it's after a while that we've seen terrorist strike at a CRPF camp in this instance in Kulgaam.
00:53Can you give us more details of what is happening on the ground?
00:58Well, Rajdeep, as is the SOP, the Army CRPF police are in fact on job.
01:06The QRTs are there.
01:08Various locations are under search right now.
01:11Several areas cordoned off and that really is the SOP because first few hours after such an attack are crucial
01:17if you want to catch the assailants.
01:20Now, this is a surprise attack.
01:22As you said, after four months, there's been a period of calm as far as Kashmir is concerned.
01:27But suddenly, it seems the intent was to show their presence of late.
01:32We've seen the government at various levels really talking about normalcy, how they have managed to control the situation in
01:39Kashmir, bring down terror-related incidents.
01:42And then, as they're saying this, it seems that they wanted to show their presence, send this message that they're
01:50still capable and they can carry out an attack.
01:53Now, Rajdeep, interestingly, an attack happened on a day when the Lieutenant Governor was there in Kulgaam.
01:58There was a Vesho Festival and he was there to participate.
02:02And while he was doing that, this attack happened in the same district.
02:07So, that angle is also being probed whether the intent was to send a message at a time when the
02:14LG, who takes care of the law and order in Jaman and Kashmir, was there.
02:19So, that is the other part of the story.
02:20But yes, right now, intense search operation is underway and multiple forces on the ground and trying to track down
02:27these assailants.
02:28Because till the time they're out, they are a threat, they have carried out this attack so they can carry
02:33out more.
02:34So, before they do it, they're trying to catch them and really neutralize them so that they cannot really carry
02:40out more such strikes.
02:42Rajdeep?
02:43Very quickly, has any group claimed responsibility?
02:48Well, as of now, no group has claimed responsibility.
02:51But our source and the security apparatus say that the way this attack has been carried out, the shoot and
02:56scoot, the modus operandi, it seems that it is the Lashkar.
03:00It is the Lashkar and of late they have operated in different names like the TRF, Kashmir Tigers, the resistance
03:07front.
03:08So, it could be any of them.
03:10But suspicion is that Lashkar is behind it.
03:14But as I said, further investigations are underway.
03:16Okay, Mir Farid joining us there with our top story coming in from Jammu and Kashmir.
