In a major breakthrough, a Lashker-e-Taiba module was busted here with the killing of two militants and arrest of 18 who had planned attacks on Bombay Stock Exchange, strategic places in Delhi and elsewhere and had links with the four militants killed in an encounter in Ahmedabad on June 15, a top police official said today. One of the four militants killed in Ahmedabad, Babar, a Pakistani national, was sent from here, the DGP said. The militants arrested from various parts of the city in the past three days, including an auxillary police constable, were involved in several high profile killings including that of Maulvi Mushtaq Ahmed, uncle of Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, blasts and suicide attacks, he said. The DGP said of the 20 militants arrested, two, both Pakistani nationals, were killed when a police team leading them for recoveries came under fire from a hideout in Rawalpora area last night. Five policemen were also injured in the shootout. With this breakthrough, Sharma said the security forces have not only worked out several cases that took place over the past one year but also prevented many others which the module had planned.
On the modus operandi of the module, the DGP said Hizbul Mujahideen, Al Umar Mujahideen and LeT had for the past six months pooled their resources including manpower, information and weaponry to work under the new umbrella organisation called Save Kashmir Movement. The outfit dominant in a certain area would help out logistically other outfits to carry out attacks, he said. Asked if busting of the module signalled an end to the presence of militants in the city, Sharma said some militants may still be around but we expect to go further in our probe.
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