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pulwama attack
NIA has retrieved
remnants of RDX can
from the Pulwama
terror attack site
rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into CRPF con- Dar said to his wife: “forget about him, he is now a
voy, it was unlike any other incident of violence Kash- dead man”.
mir had witnessed in the three decades of militancy. Unknown to family, Dar over the past many months
And yet it was seen as organic to the violent situation was being trained as a “fidayee”, an Urdu name for a
that has been prevailing in the state over the past five suicide attacker. And before launching the attack, he
years - Pakistan dimension, notwithstanding. duly shot a video to explain the rationale for it. Soon
Adil Ahmad Dar was the product of this situation. after the bombing, the video was posted on social me-
He lived just ten kilometres away from the site of dia and it soon went viral.
bombing. Seven months before he was just an ordi- Two days later, the forces killed three Jaish mili-
nary worker at the sawmill of his neighbour. But then, tants, two of them Pakistanis, at a nearby Pinglina,
as has become the norm in Kashmir, he left home one saying they were the masterminds of Pulwama
morning and didn’t return. The family filed a missing bombing. Four soldiers including a major, one police
report with the police but to no avail. A month later man and a civilian were also killed in the operation.
Dar’s picture showing him wielding a Kalashankov With Jaish openly owning the attack, the govern-
and as a member of the Jaish-e-Muhammad hit ment blamed Pakistan for organizing it and spoke of
the social media. On seeing it, father Ghulam Ahmad revenge. The dominant political and media discourse
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