...the
Army of the Pure,an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is
banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
terrorist Bahadur Ali alias Saifullah met Jamat-ul-Dawa (JuD) chief and one of the 26/11 criminal mastermind Hafiz Saeed
...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat...
twice in a training camp in Pakistain, National Investigation Agency (NIA) said on Friday.
Saifullah during interrogation told the probing agency that he met Saeed twice during terror training and he was in regular touch with a Control Room in Pakistain Occupied Kashmire from where he was his handler Walid was instructing him to kill innocent civilians in the Kashmire Valley in India. He was code named A3 by the handler. Saifullah, a terrorist from Pak and a member of Lashkar-e-Taiba terror outfit, main motive to come to India was to spreading violence in Jammu and Kashmire, the agency said.
He also told interrogators that he has to keep fighting in Jammu and Kashmire and cannot come back to Pakistain. "It was suicidal mission for him," said a source in the agency.
A team of NIA officials led by a Deputy Inspector General took the custody of 22-year-old from Handwara court and brought him to Delhi for a further interrogation on Thursday. He has been brought to Delhi on a five-day NIA remand.
He told the agency that he had been hiding in the forests of Handwara and receiving infiltrating groups from Pakistain-Indian Kashmiree before sending them further into the Valley,.
"He was trained at a Lashkar camp in PoK, including in map reading and operating GPS devices," said a NIA officer adding that he had infiltrated into India with two others to take advantage of the unrest in Kashmire. In the laskhar camp he met the Hafiz Saeed.
"He had entered India with Saad bhai and Darda bhai," said the officer.
He also said that Saad bhai was an Ameer of the terror outfit and had undergone Daur-e-Khas training. Saifullah was trained in a terror camp in Chela Bandi in Muzaffarabad and also attended the Daur-e-Aam training after he learnt of the atrocities on Kashmiris in India.
The trio entered India with the help of a guide to the country. According to Saifullah, Saad and Darda bhai were killed in an encounter with security forces in on July 12. They were killed in separate encounters with security forces in the frontier district of Kupwara. "We are further probing into the matter," said the officer.
Saifullah was nabbed during a shootout in Kupwara district on July 25 and he has confessed before the NIA that he is from Lahore. He nabbed from village Yahama in Mawar area of Handwara in North Kashmire’s Kupwara district on July 25.
They agency has also decided to conduct lie detector test of Saifullah and for that they will seek permission from the court after the thorough questioning of the nabbed terrorist.