Intelligence agencies are on high alert as terrorists are planning major strikes on Buddha Purnima
   15-May-2019

 
 
Intelligence agencies are on high alert since it has received specific inputs that the terrorists are planning to carry out strikes in multiple locations in the country on Buddha Purnima. As per the reports, three terrorists have infiltrated in the country through Nepal and have reached Bandipora in Jammu and Kashmir.
 
 
 
 
According to the report, the Bangladesh-based terror group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) has trained a female suicide bomber to carry out the attacks on Buddhist Temples in Bangladesh, India, and Myanmar. These attacks are being planned against the Buddhist community for taking revenge for the alleged atrocities committed by Buddhists on Muslims. Security agencies are considering these developments as the advent of Islamic State (IS) in South East Asia and the recent attacks on churches in Sri Lanka is the clear signal for it. Bandipora is considered as the safe haven for foreign terrorists, especially of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, where a terrorist namely Sajid Mir has recently brought three terrorists from Kathmandu, Nepal. The security agencies are on their toes because no infiltration has taken place from there in 2017 and 2018.
  
 
About Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB)
 
JMB, a Bangladesh based terrorist outfit, is now banned in that country for carrying out a number of attacks in the last decade. Four JMB members were hanged on March 29, 2007, for their involvement in terror activities. Sources said that the JMB is growing in strength because it is receiving financial support from orthodox Muslim nations and organisations. In 2015, two Pakistani High Commission officials were caught red-handed while they were arranging funds for JMB.