The Lover Boy of Bahawalpur

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The Lover Boy of Bahawalpur: How the Pulwama Case was Cracked
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First edition
Author Rahul Pandita
LanguageEnglish
Publisher Juggernaut Books
Publication date
23 June 2021
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages212
ISBN 978-9391165109

The Lover Boy of Bahawalpur: How the Pulwama Case was Cracked is a non-fiction book written by Rahul Pandita and published in 2021. [1] The book tells the story of a team of National Investigation Agency (NIA) sleuths cracking the 2019 Pulwama attack case. [2] The "lover boy" referred to in the title is Mohammad Umar Farooq (son of Ibrahim Athar, one of the five terrorists who had hijacked the Indian Airlines Flight IC 814 in December 1999), nephew of Jaish founder Masood Azhar and a key accused in the case. [3] [4] He was killed during an encounter a month after Pulwama attack. [5] Rakesh Balwal, the Jammu and Kashmir head of the NIA was tasked with the 2019 Pulwama attack case probe at that time. [6]

Contents

Background

NIA managed to connect the dots at the time of the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019 when a mobile phone full of lustful messages was recovered after an encounter that killed Umar Farooq.

Key people in the book

Reception

The Wire journalist Karan Thapar wrote of the book, "Pandita has an incredible story to tell which some may find hard to believe. Others may be sceptical [...] But there will also be many who will accept Pandita’s detailed story." [7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Vij, RK (2021-07-18). "How 'The Lover Boy of Bahawalpur' reopens the Pulwama case". The Indian Express. Retrieved 2021-08-17.
  2. ↑ Bhardwaj, Ananya (1 July 2021). "Drones threat flagged for long but govt slept over it, journalist-author Rahul Pandita claims". ThePrint. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
  3. ↑ Bhardwaj, Ananya (2020-08-25). "Afghanistan training, help from 12 Kashmiris, RDX from Pakistan — how Pulwama was 'planned'". ThePrint. Retrieved 2021-08-17.
  4. ↑ Philip, Snehesh Alex (2021-07-31). "JeM terrorist and Pulwama attack conspirator killed in encounter in J&K". ThePrint. Retrieved 2021-08-17.
  5. ↑ Sandhu, Kamaljit Kaur (26 August 2021). "NIA traces Pulwama mastermind Jaish commander Umar Farooq's al-Qaeda link". India Today. Retrieved 2021-08-17.
  6. ↑ Raaj, Neelam (20 June 2021). "3 things nailed Pulwama mastermind: Adidas jacket, Kashmiri lover, and a damaged mobile". The Times of India. Retrieved 2021-08-17.
  7. ↑ "Watch | The 'Incredible Strokes of Luck' Behind How Pulwama Terrorists Were Identified". The Wire. 25 June 2021. Retrieved 2021-08-17.
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