Fidayeen attack in Srinagar: Diaries, made in Pak ointment found on killed ... - Times of India

NEW DELHI: A day after the government indicated Pakistani footprints in the Srinagar attack, home minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Thursday listed the reasons which prompted security agencies to point to foreign origin of the killed terrorists. Shinde, while making a statement over the incident in Parliament, said items like diaries carrying telephone numbers and a Pakistan-made tube of skin ointment found on the terrorists indicated that they were of 'foreign' origin. He said, "Investigations reveal that this tube (Betnovate skin ointment) was manufactured in Glaxo Smithkline Pak Ltd at 35 Dockyard, Karachi. The name of the tube was mentioned in Urdu and the numbers mentioned in the diaries appear to be of Pakistani origin." Emphasizing that the terrorists were suicide attackers, the home minister said, "Their bodies were shaven which confirms them to be fidayeen" - pointing to the practice among such terrorists who shave their bodies after leaving their family for the assigned mission. Officials in security agencies explained that bodies of all the 'fidayeen' in the past were found to be shaven. "It may just be a coincidence, but past findings point to this practice", said an official, adding the 'shaven' body could just be a pointer. Hours after the incident on Wednesday, home secretary R K Singh had said that agencies had inputs that four terrorists had entered. "So, we were alert... These two terrorists have been killed. There might be two more (terrorists) who are out," he had said. Even the home minister on Thursday said the government "knew there will be such attempts" after the execution of Mumbai terror attack convict Ajmal Kasab and Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. Shinde made the statement after sharp criticism by oppos ition members who said the government had repeatedly failed in preventing terror incidents as well in dealing with Pakistan from where it originates. "The killed terrorists are suspected to be of foreign origin," he said about the incident in Lok Sabha. However when pressed in the Rajya Sabha for clarifications, Shinde said he did not say that the terrorists were Pakistanis and only mentioned them as foreigners. "The killed terrorists are suspected to be of foreign origin...Although the responsibility for the incident was owned by an agent of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, the authenticity of the claim is yet to be ascertained," Shinde said. He disagreed with contentions that the situation on the terror front in the Valley has turned from bad to worse saying there has been decline in the number of terror incidents as we ll as infiltration incidents in Jammu and Kashmir in the last few years. "We are focusing on PoK and we are keeping a watch on the camps there. We are very vigilant. Our intelligence agencies are very serious," Shinde said. via Top Stories - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNFKOWOdvDd7WAWiItOcE-2BK4mqIg&url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Fidayeen-attack-in-Srinagar-Diaries-made-in-Pak-ointment-found-on-killed-terrorists/articleshow/18980198.cms

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