Pakistan-based terrorist outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed has threatened to explode bombs at Firozpur, Jalandhar, Faridkot, Amritsar, and Barnala railway stations on May 13, in a letter issued by JeM commander Masoor Ahmed to senior Railways Authorities.

The terrorist group also threatened to blast Rajasthan’s railway stations, bus stands, and military bases in Jaipur, Bikaner, Jodhpur, and Sriganganagar on the same date. It is apparently an attempt to avenge its killed militants. Another letter sent to Railway authorities in Uttarakhand threatened to blow off Roorkee, Haridwar and 10 more railway stations in the state on May 6. A joint search operation has been launched by the Government Railway Police (GRP) and Railway Protection Force (RPF) across various stations in these states.

“After a letter from Jaish-e-Mohammed threatening to target Punjab and Rajasthan railway stations, we launched a joint operation with RPF to search and check suspicious elements at railway stations. Nothing major found yet,” said Mamta Vishnoi, Jodhpur’s Government Railway Police (GRP) Superintendent.

In the terror attack of the CRPF convoy in Awantipora in Jammu and Kashmir on February 14, the lives of at least 40 soldiers were claimed, while several others were injured after a militant of Jaish-e-Mohammed drove an explosive-laden vehicle into a bus in the Pulwama district. In a counter-attack, the IAF struck a major JeM terror training camp in Pakistan on February 26.