![]() Protesters surround military vehicles, climb on their roofs and hit them with stones. When deployed to neutralise terrorists, troops have to drive into thickly populated areas, where their vehicles are often surrounded by crowds in support of terrorists and pelted with stones. In Kashmir, military convoys are regularly targeted with grenades, shootings and stones. While using 'sticky bombs’ in Kashmir may not be as easy as in Afghanistan, this weapon presents a credible threat to security agencies in the Valley. In February 2019, a suicide bomber drove a car laden with explosives into a military convoy in Pulwama district, killing 40 soldiers.Ī 'sticky bomb’ is less lethal than a car laden with explosives, like the one used in Pulwama, but has become a weapon of choice for terror outfits as it is easy to use and move, and requires relatively lesser resources to make. Last month, security agencies in the Union Territory had seized at least 15 ‘sticky bombs’, all of which had reached the Kashmir Valley through drones and tunnels from across the Line of Control, and were most likely meant for The Resistance Force, an outfit of linked to Pakistan’s Lashkar-e-Taiba. This cheap, precise and lethal weapon, which has been used in Afghanistan by the Taliban and other terror groups since around 2005 and is wrecking havoc in the country, has reached the Kashmir Valley. These bombs are powerful enough to blow up a car. Terrorists, riding a motorbike or walking along a road among pedestrians, can easily put a ‘sticky bomb’ on a target vehicle using a magnet attached to it without attracting much attention, and detonate it remotely with radio signals or time-delay fuse. In recent weeks, at least ten government officials and their aides in the country have been killed by the Taliban using ‘sticky bombs’. These explosions had been carried out using magnetic bombs, also called sticky bombs, made using plastic high explosives and powerful magnets. Mohibi and his secretary were killed.Ī few hours later, Abdul Rahman Atshan, a high-ranking official in central Afghanistan’s Ghor Province, was killed in an explosion while in his car. As he passed through the narrow lanes of Kabul’s Macroyan, a neighborhood built by the Soviets a half-century ago for the pro-Soviet Afghan elites, the car was rocked by an explosion. ![]() On 15 December last year, Mahbubullah Mohibi, the deputy governor of Afghanistan’s Kabul province, left his home in an armoured SUV, bound for his office.
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