<p>A major tragedy was averted with the timely detection of a seven-kg Improvised Explosive Device (IED) near the crowded general bus stand area in Jammu city on Sunday.</p>.<p>Police said the IED was detected acting on specific information and a man from south Kashmir’s Pulwama district has been arrested in connection with the recovery.</p>.<p>The recovery comes on a day when the nation is remembering 40 CRPF jawans, who were killed when a suicide bomber of Jaish-e-Muhammad outfit rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into a paramilitary convoy at Lethpora in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on the same day in 2019.</p>.<p>Two years after the deadly attack, security had been heightened across Kashmir. A police officer said it seems the militants had chosen Jammu to carry out an attack “as security in Kashmir was foolproof.”</p>.<p>“Most likely a major terrorist attack was being planned in Jammu to coincide with the second anniversary of Pulwama attack," he added.</p>.<p>In the last week, police have arrested two militants in Jammu in two separate operations. The arrested militants include Hidayatullah Malik, chief of lesser-known militant outfit Lashkar-e-Mustafa, which is a believed to be a front organisation of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) in Kashmir and Zahoor Rather, affiliated with TRF (The Resistance Force), a front organisation of the Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT).</p>
<p>A major tragedy was averted with the timely detection of a seven-kg Improvised Explosive Device (IED) near the crowded general bus stand area in Jammu city on Sunday.</p>.<p>Police said the IED was detected acting on specific information and a man from south Kashmir’s Pulwama district has been arrested in connection with the recovery.</p>.<p>The recovery comes on a day when the nation is remembering 40 CRPF jawans, who were killed when a suicide bomber of Jaish-e-Muhammad outfit rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into a paramilitary convoy at Lethpora in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on the same day in 2019.</p>.<p>Two years after the deadly attack, security had been heightened across Kashmir. A police officer said it seems the militants had chosen Jammu to carry out an attack “as security in Kashmir was foolproof.”</p>.<p>“Most likely a major terrorist attack was being planned in Jammu to coincide with the second anniversary of Pulwama attack," he added.</p>.<p>In the last week, police have arrested two militants in Jammu in two separate operations. The arrested militants include Hidayatullah Malik, chief of lesser-known militant outfit Lashkar-e-Mustafa, which is a believed to be a front organisation of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) in Kashmir and Zahoor Rather, affiliated with TRF (The Resistance Force), a front organisation of the Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT).</p>