Pulwama terror attack was not an intelligence failure, says government

The government on Wednesday told the Lok Sabha that there was no intelligence failure in the Pulwama terror attack. The attack, orchestrated by the Jaish-e-Mohammad group, had killed 40 Central Reserve Police Force soldiers on February 14.

Union Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishen Reddy said “all agencies are working in a coordinated manner and the intelligence inputs are shared among various agencies on a real-time basis”, NDTV reported.

“Jammu and Kashmir is affected by terrorism sponsored and supported from across the border for the last three decades,” he told the House. “However, owing to the policy of zero tolerance towards terrorism and sustained action against the terrorists by the security forces, a large number of terrorists have been neutralized during the past few years.”