Two messages written in blood on the walls of the Indian Consulate in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, which was attacked on January 3, suggest that attack and the Pathankot attack might have been to avenge the 2013 hanging of Afzal Guru, reports CNN-IBN.
The two messages – “Afzal Guru ka inteqam” (Afzal Guru is avenged) and “Ek shaheed, hazaar fidayeen” (One martyr thousand suicide bombers) – are thought to have been left by the four terrorists who attacked the consulate.
The consulate attack occured while the Pathankot operation was ongoing.
One of the survivors of the Pathankot attack, Rajesh Verma, has claimed that his captors told him that they were taking revenge for Afzal Guru’s hanging.
Guru was hanged for his role in the Indian Parliament attack on December 13, 2001.
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