The terrorist taken alive on Wednesday claimed he was only 16 and first gave his first name as Qasim, but later said it was Usman.
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Hours before 1993 blasts convict Yakub Memon was hanged, his older brother and terror mastermind Tiger Memon is reported to have called his family in Mumbai and threatened to avenge the death.
Expressing heartfelt condolences to the families of BSF personnel killed, he said beside ex-gratia compensation and jobs to their families, we will also consider them and others who displayed courage and bravery in the incident for immediate award of the Gallantry Medal.
As per agencies – Many fake videos of torture by army, killing Muslims were shown to Naved and his prime target was security forces.
However, the case was shifted from Jammu and Kashmir Police to NIA given its worldwide ramifications. Later, Rakesh Kumar and Vikramjit Singh – the two hostages – misled the militant by asking him to take shelter in a safe place. As per the investigation the police officials as of now found that Naved along with four other militants infiltrated to Kashmir from Nowgam sector of north Kashmir and then reached Baba Reshi which is located at 5 km from tourist resort Gulmarg via Global Positioning System.
Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah said the credit for catching the Pakistani should go to Chirdi villagers. Officials initially gave no credit to the villagers who caught the terrorists. “The story of their coming from Kapwada is not at all convincing…”, he added.
The captured Pakistani is now in the custody of the NIA.
According to the Dawn, the statement from Pakistan’s foreign office comes following Indian claim that Usman Faisal, a militant captured on Wednesday after a deadly attack on a military convoy in the Kashmir region, was a Pakistani.
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In a preliminary investigation report sent to the district magistrate, Udhampur SSP Suleiman Choudhary said the terrorists involved in the Udhampur attack are “trained fidayeens’ supported by Pakistan’s ISI to wage a war against the Indian government”. They have fought three major wars since that time -the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947, the five-week Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 and the brief but bloody Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971.
