Pak Terrorist Naved Entered India 90 Days Ago, Trained by Lashkar

Mangalore Today News Network

Jammu, Aug 06, 2015:  Mohammad Naved, the Pakistani terrorist captured yesterday after an attack on a security convoy in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur, has told interrogators that he was trained by the terror outfit Lashkar e Taiba and entered India 90 days ago, sources have told NDTV.

 

Naved, 22, was interrogated through the night, and he revealed that he entered through the Kashmir Valley during Ramzan, along with another terrorist.
   
Investigators have learnt that Naved, who has said he is from Pakistan’s Faislabad, had been in hiding in the Kashmir Valley for over a month.
   
Naved and his companion came to Udhampur by truck, say sources. He has reportedly told interrogators that he had specific orders to target military convoys on a part of the highway south of the Banihal tunnel. This route is taken by Amarnath pilgrims but sources have said that pilgrims were not the target.
   
Naved has given contradictory statements ever since his capture yesterday. He will be questioned by top police officers in Jammu today.
   
Sources say the National Investigation Agency (NIA) will also be present when the terrorist is interrogated.
   
Naved was caught hours after he and his companion, Noman, attacked a Border Security Force (BSF) convoy on a highway near Udhampur, killing two soldiers.
   
Naved fled into a forest nearby, taking three villagers hostage. He was overpowered by the unarmed villagers when he started firing from a hilltop school. The villagers snatched his AK 47 rifle, grabbed his neck and held on till security and police personnel arrived.
   
Pakistan has yet to comment on the terrorist. National Security Advisors from both countries are to meet later this month in Delhi to discuss combating terror.
   
Last week, gunmen stormed a police station and killed seven people in Punjab. India said the gunmen had come from Pakistan, according to an analysis of a GPS tracking device they carried.
   
Naved’s capture is being billed as the first major catch since the arrest of Ajmal Kasab, the only 26/11 attacker to be caught alive after the siege in Mumbai in which 166 were killed. Authorities used his testimony to show that the assault was plotted in Pakistan.

 

Courtesy: NDTV