Migrant labourer gunned down by militants in J-K’s Pulwama
The incident was reported from Tumchi Nowpora area of the south Kashmir district, police said.
Jammu-Kashmir DGP SP Vaid launched a scathing attack on the Pakistani High Commission on Saturday, 3 February.
Addressing the media after the arrest of two militants by the security forces at Baramulla, Vaid said that our “neighbour” is now issuing visas to facilitate the movement of militants between the two countries especially since the tightening of security at the borders and the LoC.
“Those imparting training are in collusion with those giving visas,” Vaid was quoted as saying by NDTV.
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On Saturday, two Kashmiri youth who received terrorist training at a camp in Islamabad were arrested. They had entered India via the Wagah border in Punjab and had been issued valid visas by the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi.
Identified as Abdul Majeed Bhat and Mohammad Ashraf Mir, the two residents of Baramulla also spilled the beans on terrorist camps in Pakistan.
According to police, the duo, revealed that they had undergone terrorist training along with large number of Pakistani boys, most of them from its restive Balochistan province and some as 10 years old.
“Baramulla police, army and CRPF have arrested two militants who had gone to Pakistan on valid Pakistani visas to obtain arms training there for undertaking terrorist activities in the Valley. They had obtained passports specifically for the said purpose. These militants of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) were nabbed immediately after returning via Wagah-Attari border before they could formally join the militant ranks here in Kashmir,” a police officer said.
Read More: Two Pakistan-trained LeT militants arrested at Wagah-Attari crossing
(With inputs from agencies.)
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