Nasir confessed to having sheltered Waqas Ahmed alias Zia ur Rahman @ Nabeel Ahmed before Dilsukhangar blasts, following the orders of Jabbar.
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The role of the four persons, one from Pakistan, two from Bangladesh and another from Myanmar is being probed into.
“In a joint operation, the police team arrested the Pakistani national who is having terror links with HuJI”.
Polices said, Nasir, during his stay in India, has been sending people to Saudi Arabia and surrounding countries, and many of them could be militants.
The terror suspects have been identified as Mohammed Nasir, migrated to Pakistan from Bangladesh, Joynal Abedin and Faizal Mohamoud, from Bangladesh and Zia-Ur-Rehman from Myanmar.
“Indoctrinated by Jabbar, Nasir came to India five years ago by illegally crossing the border to carry out plans of the former”, Mr. Rao said. Over 100 fake voter and Aadhaar cards and other papers were seized from them.
“When NIA officials arrested Waqas, he disclosed that it was one Nasir who helped him cross to Bangladesh”. He had strong connection with Abdul Jabbar, leader of Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami, an Islamic fundamentalist organisation, which has active cellls in Pakistan, Bangladesh and India since 1990.
On February 21, 2013, two powerful bombs went off in Dilsukhnagar, killing 18 people and injuring 130 others.
The Pakistani national lived in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana before coming to Hyderabad in March this year.
Reacting to another query, Rao said right now Nasir is a trafficker and was arranging Indian passports for foreign nationals, for the goal of employment.
Joint Commissioner of Police Prabhakar Rao told reporters that the accused were sending job-seekers overseas on fake documents and illegal passports.
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Interestingly, both Nasir and his wife have worked at a Unani hospital at Jalpally, posing as Indians.
