[Daily Excelsior] The NIA today handed over to the army two Pak youths whom it had tossed in the calabooseYou have the right to remain silent...
in connection with the last year’s terror attack on a military base in Jammu and Kashmire’s Uri that had killed 19 soldiers.
A National Investigation Agency (NIA) spokesperson said they have handed over Faisal Hussain Awan and Ahsan Khursheed to the Army’s 16 Corps headquarters in Jammu and they will be sent back home.
The spokesperson added that the NIA’s probe "revealed that the two suspects had crossed over to the Indian side after altercation with their parents due to pressure of studies".
"Evidence collected in the form of statements, technical analysis of their mobile phones, seized GPS devices and other circumstantial evidence collected by the NIA did not reveal any linkage of the suspects with the Uri attackers," the spokesperson added.
It was initially suspected that the two youths acted as guides for the Uri attackers.
On September 18 last year, four heavily armed Death Eaters had stormed the Uri Army base camp in Jammu and Kashmire killing 19 soldiers and injuring few others.
The NIA had taken over the investigation in the case from the state Police.
The two youths were arrested by the BSF and the Army in a joint operation at ’Angoor Post at Gavalata village in Uri when they were trying to infiltrate into India.
They were also brought to the NIA headquarters here for detailed interrogation.
The NIA has claimed that terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba
...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...
was behind the Uri terror attack.
The spokesperson added that "further investigation is continuing in the case."