Wife and daughter pay tribute to martyr Lieutenant Colonel Sankalp Shukla, who was killed during militant attacks at Uri Army camp, in Ranchi on Sunday.(Photo: PTI)

New Delhi: Specific intercepts by intelligence agencies between top Lashkar-e-Tayyaba co-mmanders on both sides of the border have revealed that the attack at an Army camp in Mohura, in the Uri sector, was carried out on the direct orders and supervision of senior officers of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence.

Top intelligence sources said that after these attacks there was a sharp rise in exchange of messages across the border that were intercepted by the security agencies.

In fact, in one specific intercept, the Lashkar operatives mention the role of an ISI major who trained the six Lashkar “fidayeen” terrorists who attacked the Army camp.

“We are working on these leads and for operational reasons are not disclosing the details of these intercepts. But there is no doubt that Pakistani agencies were involved in the incident and we will soon submit a formal report to the government. We are even doing a forensic examination of a cellphone recovered from one of the killed terrorists. The GPS set recovered from the terrorists is also being analysed.” a senior intelligence official said.

In Srinagar, the head of the Army’s 15 Corps, Lt. Gen. Subrata Saha, said that it was clear that the terrorists were aiming to create fear in the middle of the five-phase J&K election.

“We have enough evidence that both groups were from Lashkar-e-Tayyaba. The markings on warlike and logistic stores, whether food, ammunition, medicines or clothes, clearly indicates they were of Pakistani manufacture and origin. The terrorists were heavily armed and had enough food to last several days,” said Lt. Gen. Saha, GOC of 15 Corps.

Top security officials said that besides weapons, food packets and medicines with Pakistani markings, there was enough technical evidence pointing to Pakistan’s hand in the attack.