Two Pakistan-trained LeT militants arrested in Kashmir
Srinagar, Feb 3 (IBNS): Two Pakistan-trained LeT terrorists from Jammu and Kashmir were arrested soon after they returned to India via the Wagah-Attari border crossing in Punjab with valid passports and visas.
“Baramulla Police,Army and CRPF have arrested two militants who had gone to Pakistan on valid Pakistani visa to obtain arms training there for undertaking terrorist activities in the Valley. They had obtained their Passports specifically for the said purpose,” an official spokesman of the state police said on Saturday.
These militants of Lashkar-e-Toiba were nabbed immediately after returning via Wagah-Attari border before they could formally join the terrorist ranks here in Kashmir.
A police officer said, identifying them as Abdul Majeed Bhat and Mohammad Ashraf Mir, both are residents of Baramulla district.
According to police, the duo, on questioning revealed that they had undergone terrorist training in Pakistan along with large number of Pakistani boys and most of them were from Balochistan and as young as 10 years old.
“The said terrorist camps are located near Burma Town, Islamabad ,Pakistan and being run by one terrorist commander operating under code name Hanzala Adanan and Omar .Other terrorists imparting training to young boys are operating with code names Osama,Naveed and Hataf. The arrested militants have been given Pakistani visas by Pakistan
High Commission in New Delhi,” the spokesman said.
Police spokesman further said that for past couple of years police have unearthed several such modules who lure young boys to Pakistan to get trained and join militancy.
Several of these youth have been arrested and some of them were killed in gunfights, said the police.
"On February 4, 2017, two militants namely Azharuddin and Sajad Ahmad got killed in an gunfight in Amargarh, Sopore... both had gone to Pakistan on valid visas to obtain terror training, subsequently joined militancy here and got killed," the police official said.
"Suhaib Farooq Akhoon of Baramulla also visited Pakistan in August last year, acquired terrorist training in LeT terrorist camp, subsequently went underground and joined militant ranks and is currently active," the official said.
"One more militant, Abdul Rashid Bhat of Sopore was also arrested on July 17 last year by Baramulla police after he had also gone underground after obtaining training in Pakistan under similar circumstances," the police officer said.
(Reporting by Saleem Iqbal Qadri)
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