Jammu, December 17
Though the main persons involved in organising a terrorist strike on Parliament House in Delhi on December 13, in which 13 persons, including five militants, were killed and over a score wounded, have been apprehended the security and intelligence agencies continue to dig out further links of militants with the strike.

In this connection the Kashmir police have identified one Tariq belonging to Tral in south Kashmir who too was said to have assisted the five Pakistani nationals in storming Parliament House. The police have arrested four youths, including Tanweer Ahmed, also belonging to Tral who is stated to be an associate of Tariq, who is absconding after he came to know that Mohd. Afzal and Showkat had been arrested.

The Kashmir police and intelligence agencies have intensified their operations against the militants so that all those who provided direct or indirect support to the Fidayeens of Jaish-e-Mohammad in their attack on the Parliament House.

The security agencies have been directed to step up raids on houses of those suspected to be linked with jaish-e-Mohammad attack on the Parliament House.

Showkat, who is in police custody along with Mohd. Afzal, and others in Delhi, is stated to have told the interrogators that more than 25 “fidayeens” belonging to Jaish-e-Mohammad continued to camp somewhere around Taru in Pahalgam in eastern Kashmir. These Fidayeens were planning a series of suicide strikes against key installations within Jammu and Kashmir and in Delhi.

It is in Taru that Gazi Baba, supreme commander of Jaish-e-Mohammad in Kashmir, had finalised the plan for attacking Parliament House and the Delhi airport.

Police authorities in Srinagar have sounded their counterparts in Jammu and Delhi to remain on the alert because Jaish-e-Mohammad activists were planning to avenge the killing of five militants on the Parliament House gates.

According to police sources, both Jaish-e-Mohammad and the Lashkar-e-Toiba activists have started concentrating on “fidayeen” attacks on key installations and crowded places in Jammu and Kashmir and in other states as such attacks give fresh impetus to the demand for the settlement of the Kashmir issue. The terrorist strategy is that during the “fidayeen” attacks chances of bigger casualties on the Indian security forces were higher than in encounters with the police or the paramilitary forces.