The suicide squad attacked the Army camp at 12 Brigade headquarters in Uri carried along with their arms and ammunition. Apart from these thy carried a mission plan which was annotated in Pashto.

The map recovered from the terrorists, unfurled that they were to kill unarmed troops, then storm a medical aid unit near the brigade administrative block and blow themselves up in the officers' mess.

Sources said that the map deciphered by military experts indicated that the terrorists were drawn from the banned terror group, Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) that have recently started working under Jaish command and calls itself "Guardians of the Prophet". According to source, the SSP cadre directly operates under Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar.

Sources said that the suicide squad attacked the administrative block where unarmed soldiers had been refilling diesel in barrels from fuel tanks. The terrorists lobbed 17 grenades in three minutes, which ignited the dump and resulted in a massive fire burning barracks and tents in a 150-metre radius. Thirteen soldiers were burnt alive instantaneously and 32 soldiers were critically injured with severe burns.

With the diesel dump ablaze, due to smog and subsequent explosions, the terrorists got disoriented and headed straight towards soldiers' barracks. One terrorist had been gunned down in the barracks by a 19 yeqars old old Dogra soldier, who sustained a severe head injury when a bullet hit his helmet, while challenging the other three.

Since the barracks were vacant, the terrorists took a defensive position in the side barracks of two floors and 16 rooms. Later, four commandoes stormed the building and eliminated the other three terrorists.

The Uri attack has been a inflection point for India, its relationship with Pakistan and the geopolitical future of south Asia. It would be another deep cut inflicted by a rogue neighbour that provokes New Delhi, securing in the knowledge that India shall remain forever trapped in the delusion of being a "great, responsible power" that in reality can do little beyond spewing empty rhetoric followed by routine pusillanimity.

According to initial reports, new Delhi confirmed the suspicion. Army’s director general of military operations (DGMO) Lt Gen Ranbir Singh had been quoted as saying by Livemint that "all four killed were foreign terrorists and had some items with them which had Pakistani markings… Slain terrorists belong to Jaish-e-Mohammed Tanzeem (militant group). Four AK-47 rifles and four under-barrel grenade launchers along with a large number of other war-like stores were recovered from them."

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By Prakriti neogi