Pathankot terror results from too many compromises by servicemen
Pathankot airbase terror attack by Pakistan-based terrorists on New Year's Day was aided and abetted by Insider jobs, intelligence agencies have confirmed. The scale, the duration, the fire power and the staying power of the attack all point to the insider jobs. The National Investigation Agency goes so far as to say that the grenades and food for the terrorists were readily available for them in the airbase. Pakistani terrorists normally come with backpacks, but the fact that they had ammunition enough to last longer than themselves clearly points to the insider jobs. Even as the last terrorists was killed, the bombs were going off for 2 days afterwards. This more than confirms the insider jobs finding of the intelligence agency. The combing operations at the airbase revealed 27 magazines and 45 grenades as having been used by the terrorists. The rest of the fire power was obviously supplied by the insider jobs showing someone as not being true to his salt in the airbase. Also there were 45 clear explosions. That kind of ammunition would not have been carried by backpack-sporting terrorists. The intelligence also suspects that the terrorists, much against their wont, did not carry on with firing as soon as they entered the airbase. There was room for strong suspicion that they had enough time for checking the logistics before they started the storming. First the Assistant Commandant of the Punjab Police Armed Battalion, Salwinder Singh, had given his official car for the second group of terrorists for their tryst at 3.30 a.m. at Pathankot air base with the first group, which was virtually an insider job. The scale, the fire power, the ammunition and the food pointed to the second insider job. The NIA is now engaged in screening all the 3,000 families staying on in the residential quarters of the Pathankot airbase. On an average, considering there are five members in a family, the total population works out to 15,000 people as living on the airbase. Their bank accounts are also beng checked for possible sudden acquisition of ill-gotten funds. No wonder, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed his displeasure with the intelligence failure and suggested clubbing of all the agencies within one body to guard against such dismal failures. However, what could the leadership do when servicemen get compromised by phoney honey traps into cutting chinks in the Indian armour? Salwinder Singh is prime case of such compromising. There were IAF officers who were also similarly compromised by phoney honies. Would Pathankot servicemen living happily with their families be far behind in compromising themselves and the country?
