NEW DELHI: In what may further belie Islamabad’s claims that it was not abetting terror, three Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists hailing from Pakistan,
including an Army personnel, were arrested by the Jammu & Kashmir police on Tuesday for planning a suicide attack in Jammu. “The three terrorists of the JeM travelled from Karachi to Dhaka, and then crossed over to Malda before boarding a train from Kolkata. They reached Jammu on December 20 and, based on specific information, were arrested from Samrat Hotel in Gumat area of Jammu during a joint raid by special operations group (SOG) of the J&K police and CRPF on Tuesday,” state DGP Kuldeep Khoda announced at a press conference. “The three Jaish men were on a fidayeen mission, with specific instructions to drive an explosives-laden truck into a specific target in Jammu or carry out Mumbai-like strikes,” he disclosed. “We had received some strong inputs that terrorists guided from across the border were being asked to launch action in the state in the midst of assembly elections...,” he added. With initial investigations putting the total number of terrorists in the group at seven, a hunt is still on to nab the remaining four accomplices. “One of the three arrested has been identified as Ghulam Farid alias Gulshan Kumar, a sepoy in 10 Azad Kashmir regiment of Pakistan Army. His service number is 4319184,” Mr Khoda disclosed. The involvement of an Army personnel in Jaish activities blows the lid off the nexus between terrorists and the Pakistan military. The neighbour’s Army has for long suspected to have a hold on the terror outfits based in Pakistan, with its senior officers lending training and other skills to the jihadis. The other two terrorists have been identified as Mohammad Abdullah, belonging to Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province, and Mohammad Imran, who hails from Dera Nawab in Bahawalpur. The remaining four of what was originally a group of seven terrorists are suspected to have sneaked into the Valley. “We are on the lookout for them,” Mr Khoda told journalists.
Read More...including an Army personnel, were arrested by the Jammu & Kashmir police on Tuesday for planning a suicide attack in Jammu. “The three terrorists of the JeM travelled from Karachi to Dhaka, and then crossed over to Malda before boarding a train from Kolkata. They reached Jammu on December 20 and, based on specific information, were arrested from Samrat Hotel in Gumat area of Jammu during a joint raid by special operations group (SOG) of the J&K police and CRPF on Tuesday,” state DGP Kuldeep Khoda announced at a press conference. “The three Jaish men were on a fidayeen mission, with specific instructions to drive an explosives-laden truck into a specific target in Jammu or carry out Mumbai-like strikes,” he disclosed. “We had received some strong inputs that terrorists guided from across the border were being asked to launch action in the state in the midst of assembly elections...,” he added. With initial investigations putting the total number of terrorists in the group at seven, a hunt is still on to nab the remaining four accomplices. “One of the three arrested has been identified as Ghulam Farid alias Gulshan Kumar, a sepoy in 10 Azad Kashmir regiment of Pakistan Army. His service number is 4319184,” Mr Khoda disclosed. The involvement of an Army personnel in Jaish activities blows the lid off the nexus between terrorists and the Pakistan military. The neighbour’s Army has for long suspected to have a hold on the terror outfits based in Pakistan, with its senior officers lending training and other skills to the jihadis. The other two terrorists have been identified as Mohammad Abdullah, belonging to Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province, and Mohammad Imran, who hails from Dera Nawab in Bahawalpur. The remaining four of what was originally a group of seven terrorists are suspected to have sneaked into the Valley. “We are on the lookout for them,” Mr Khoda told journalists.
Source Economic Times
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