The attackers who stormed an army base in Uri and killed 20 Indian soldiers started from Pakistan, a report by The Indian Express confirmed. The information was confirmed by the data recovered from a Global Positioning System (GPS) unit. The unit, though badly damaged, was recovered from the terrorists after the attack. The attackers carried two sets, but the other was too severely damaged for any data recovery.
Quoting “highly-placed sources familiar with the investigation”, the report said that:
...the men travelled by road along the Muzaffarabad-Srinagar road towards the Line of Control on 17 September, before beginning to hike into the mountains short of Chakothi, the official border point.
The unit was first powered-up on 4 September at a facility of Lashkar-e-Taiba. Army sources also claim that the attackers are believed to have used ladders to scale barbed-wire fence.
It’s clear from the timeline of the terrorists’ movements, which we now have, that they were able to penetrate the three-tier defences on the Line of Control with relative ease, and evade Army patrols deeper inside Kashmir as well. This is an obvious source of concern.A Source
Other items found with the terrorists included syringes, painkillers, packets of ready-to-eat food – all of which bore markings of Pakistani manufacturers.
(With inputs from The Indian Express)
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