Pulwama, February 15,2019: 22 year old Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist Adil Ahmad Dar who has been identified as the suicide bomber lived just 10km away from the site of the attack. Dar on Thursday rammed a car loaded with explosives into bus carrying CRPF soldiers, killing a total of 44.
Dar who dropped school in class 12 knew well about the movement of CRPF convoy.
The bomber Adil Ahmad Dar, also known as "Adil Ahmad Gaadi Takranewala" and "Waqas Commando of Gundibagh" became a part of Masood Azhar led Jaish-e-Mohammed only last year. A school dropout, Adil Ahmad was from Gundibagh village in south Kashmir. Gundibagh is a known breeding ground of terrorists of Pulwama district. Dar dropped out of school in March 2017 and joined Pakistan based terror outfit.
As per police record, Dar was a category C militant. Besides JeM, he was also spotted with the members of Hizbul and Lashkar.
Before he became a militant, Dar worked at a local mill. His father, Riyaz Ahmad Dar, runs a small shop in Gundibagh.
Adil Ahmad Dar is the third ‘fidayeen’ militant recruited by the JeM for a suicide attack.
A video of Adil Ahmad was released by Jaish-e-Mohammed just minutes after he carried out the dastardly attack in the Pulwama district. In the video, shot sometime before Adil went on the fedayeen mission, he addressed the Kashmiri people and said, "The war that they can't win with force, they are trying to win by compromising your belief. They want to mislead you from the etiquettes of Islam. They want to mislead you from the path of Islam by luring you with worldly pleasures."