Since May 2014, there have been 23 fidayeen (suicide) attacks along the Pakistan border, most of them in Jammu and Kashmir. In the last two years of the United Progressive Alliance rule, eight fidayeen attacks were reported. “The name of the terrorist outfit is immaterial, whether its Jaish or Lashkar-e-Taiba, the fact is that it has tell-tale signs of an ISI-backed plan. The ISI might have changed its strategy and would have sent a team comprising members of more than one terrorist outfit,” a senior Union Home Ministry official said. The Indian consulates in Afghanistan also became a target of suicide attacks by terrorists.

Source: The Hindu September 25, 2016 20:26 UTC