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| Terrorists now "infiltrating" via train, with passports |
| 2006-01-10 |
| A day after India and Pakistan inked an agreement to run a second train between the two countries on Khokhrapar-Munabao route, two Al-Jehad militants arrested recently by the Counter Intelligence (CI) sleuths and Special Operations Group (SOG), Jammu, have disclosed that about a dozen militants have crossed over to Jammu and Kashmir via Wagah in Attari Express on the passports issued by Pakistan authorities. The militants have also revealed that Pakistan authorities and militant leaders were now finding it difficult to push the militants through Line of Control (LoC) or International Border (IB) due to fencing. Therefore, they have adopted a new strategy to either send the militants on passports through Wagah in train or re-route them via Nepal. The militants, who have made the revelations, had themselves came on Attari Express, also known as Samjhauta Express, via Wagah in Amritsar sector on the passports issued by Pakistan authorities. They have been identified as Saif Ali son of Abdul Rashid Sheikh R/o Hamirpura, Shiva in Doda district and Iftikhar Ali son of Haji Ghulam Qadir R/o Bharti, Gandoh. Their passports have been seized by the CI officers. They disclosed that only few days back two more militants of Doda travelled from Pakistan to Amritsar in the train and then reached Jammu on the passports issued by Pakistan. Their identity has been established as Nazir Ahmed son of Saif Din, a resident of Pranu, Bhaderwah and Nazir Ahmed son of Nasarullah R/o Thathri. Both Nazir Ahmeds, who belonged to Hizbul Mujahideen outfit, had gone underground after reaching Jammu and hadn’t been arrested so far. Saif Ali and Iftikhar Ali told the interrogators that they had crossed over to Pakistan from Kupwara sector in a group of 12 militants. They underwent training in arms and explosives in different training camps of Pakistan. The militants said they made two unsuccessful attempts to cross LoC from Poonch sector but failed due to fencing. They, however, admitted that some of their associates did manage to cut fencing and sneaked into the Indian territory from Mendhar sector. They also disclosed that as per their information, some militants were first sent to Nepal by the Pakistan authorities from where they successfully managed to reach Jammu and Kashmir. Investigations conducted by the CID officers here revealed that passports recovered from the militants were genuine but the names written on them were fake. While Saif Ali had been issued passport on the name of Mohd Ramzan, Iftikhar Ali had the passport of Mohd Shabir. They had been shown as residents of Jammu and Rajouri. This, according to sources, had been done to keep the Intelligence agencies here in doubt. By their original names, the militants would have been identified immediately as their names figured in the list of those who had crossed over to PoK for arms training. Sources said the CID authorities were in the process of writing to the Central agencies for taking up matter with the External Affairs Ministry. The Ministry will further write to Pakistan Government as the issuance of passports to the militants was a serious matter, they added. |
| Posted by:john |
| #1 Their passports have been seized by the CI officers. (Long shrill euro train whistle) .... "Ihre bordpapiere bitte!" |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-01-10 13:32 |