Uri attack: Lashkar-e-Taiba claims responsibility in posters, says report
The Uri Army base was attacked by heavily-armed Pakistani terrorists on September 18 in which 20 soldiers were killed.
Terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) has claimed responsibility for the Uri attack that killed 20 jawans, the Indian Express reported Tuesday. The claim comes in spite of Pakistan's rejection of India's allegations that terrorists based in that country were involved in the Uri attack,
According to The Indian Express, LeT posters were seen in Gujranwala in the Pakistani part of Punjab saying it would hold last rites in absentia for one of the four terrorists involved in the Uri attack.
The report said that the poster had named one perpetrator as Gujranwala resident Muhammad Anas, who operated under the alias Abu Siraqa.
The posters reportedly carried images of Jama'at-ud-Da'wah chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed. "Ghaybana namaaz janaza (last rites held in the absence of the body of the deceased), will be held at Bada Nullah, near Girjakh, in the Punjab town of Gujranwala," the poster said.
Last month, 20 Indian Army jawans were killed and 19 others were injured in the terror strike in which four terrorists were neutralised.
Two maps depicting the general topography of Uri were recovered from the terrorists who stormed into the Army camp even as the army intensified efforts to identify the exact stretch along the Line of Control (LoC) from where they entered India.
The maps showed various places of Uri including the Brigade Headquarters and other installations of this town, about 75 km North of Srinagar. The place is strategically important in view of the power project operated by the National Hydel Power Corporation (NHPC).
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had denied any Pakistani angle to the attack, terming such an assertion as "India's long-time habit"..