The two 'fidayeens' (suicide militants), who entered the Police Public School ground in the guise of playing cricket, were eliminated during a 30-minute gunbattle following the terror attack in which 18 people, 15 jawans and three civilians, were also injured. Five jawans and the three civilians were out of danger, officials said.
"Prima facie the terrorists don't appear to be local but from across the border and first impressions are that they are possibly from Pakistan," Union home secretary R K Singh said in New Delhi.
Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde said the suicide attack is an indicator that the government has to remain "very alert" in Kashmir Valley.
"We are analyzing how the attack took place," he said, adding, it is difficult to predict when terror will strike.
"But it (the attack) has given an indication that we have to remain very alert in Kashmir," Shinde said on the sidelines of an event here.
The home minister said the attack is a "sad incident" and the agencies concerned will take proper action.
In Srinagar, a spokesman from the Hizbul Mujahideen group called a local news agency to claim responsibility for the attack that began at 10.45am and threatened more such attacks in the future. "It was a guerrilla attack carried out by a special squad formed for the purpose," Hizb spokesman Baleeguddin said in a telephonic call to the news agency.
Looking like other boys playing cricket at the school ground, the militants removed their jackets after they entered the field, lobbed several grenades and fired indiscriminately from their AK-47s concealed in their kits to inflict the causalities before they were killed in the gunbattle.
"Five jawans have been martyred and seven (jawans) have been injured," IGP (Kashmir) Abdul Gani Mir told reporters at the scene of attack. The school was luckily closed due to strike called by separatists in support of their demand for return of mortal remains of Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru.
The CRPF camp at Bemina is surrounded by the Police Public School and many government buildings. "There is a ground for Police Public School in Pirampura police station. Now some boys were playing cricket there. The CRPF jawans deployed in the adjacent area were in the standby," Singh said, adding two terrorists carrying kit bags came, took out AK-47s and started firing and lobbed hand grenades. Chief minister Omar Abdullah told the state Assembly the strike was a 'fidayeen' attack.
Today's incident is the first suicide attack in Kashmir in the last three years with the last such attack having taken place in January 2010.
Militancy will not help in resolving Kashmir issue: Khar
Striking a note different from the established line, Pakistan foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar has spoken of the need for an "out-of-the box" solution to the Kashmir issue, saying that militancy would not help in resolving the long-standing dispute with India.
Khar, whose term will end on March 16 when the government completes its five-year term, made the remarks during a final brainstorming session with senior officials of the foreign office.
She impressed on the need for an "out-of-the box" solution of the Kashmir issue making it clear that "militancy would not help in resolving the issue while military power is also not an option", The News daily reported today.
Khar, who served as foreign minister for two years, said India was not willing to talk about Kashmir at the moment.
"In these circumstances, trade and business with India is the best way forward. As trade and business grow, the people in India would force their government to find some solution of the problem and it is the only way through which we could get some relief for the people of Kashmir," Khar was quoted as saying.
She insisted that Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf's private visit to India last week to pray at a Sufi shrine "proved to be useful since it came in the wake of tense relations" between the two sides.
Khar argued that Pakistan was not so weak that it "could be browbeaten by the Americans so easily".
She said: "We aren't that weak. We know how to get things resolved on our terms. The Salala incident is a glaring example where we restored the facility for the Americans and its allies after obtaining an apology from Washington".
She was referring to Pakistan's decision to close Nato supply routes to Afghanistan after a cross-border US air strike killed 24 soldiers in the Salala region in November 2011.
The routes were reopened last year after the US apolozised for the incident.
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