New Delhi, Jan 08
Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) uses messaging app like ‘TextNow' to keep in touch with its operatives in India, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has revealed.
The terror group also used this messaging app to carry out the Pulwama attack in February last year, NIA sources told news networks on Wednesday.
Sources said the idea to use the messaging app is the brainchild of Abdul Rauf, the new commander of the outfit and the younger brother of JeM chief Maulana Masood.
The messaging platform was used to recruit terrorists as well as execute planned attacks in many places even before the Pulwama attack.
The chat between the terrorists points to the fact that the suicide bomber attack on CRPF personnel in Pulwama last year was planned in Pakistan. The transcript of the chat has been seen by Media.
At least 40 jawans of paramilitary force – Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) – were killed in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district on February 14 last year after a JeM suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into their bus.
