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| Jammu Police claims on Pak terrorist substantiated | | | ET DESK
Jammu, Dec 24: A day after Jammu Police produced three terrorists before the media, Pakistan has confirmed about one of the man coming from its soil but denied he was a serving soldier.
The Pakistan Army Wednesday denied that Ghulam Farid, one of the three terrorists arrested Jammu Police for allegedly planning a suicide attack was a serving soldier of Pakistan's 10 Azad Kashmir Regiment, media reports said.
A Pakistani military official said Farid deserted Army in 2006 from the central city of Okara. "He's certainly not an army employee and his unit was not deployed at the Line of Control when he deserted the army," the military official said on condition of anonymity.
"Indians might have apprehended Farid sometime back and are now staging this drama because of current situation," he added.
However, the official's statement, which confirms that Farid is a Pakistani and an ex-serviceman, strengthen India's stand of Pakistan's complicity in allowing its soil to be used to stage terror attacks in India.
Police in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir Tuesday averted a major terror strike with the arrest of three Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad fidayeen (suicide bombers).
All the three terrorists are Pakistani nationals and one of them, Gulam Farid, is a serving Pakistani Army soldier. Farid joined the infantry battalion, the 10 AK Regiment as a sepoy in 2001 and his belt number is 4319148.
The terrorists had planned to launch a suicide attack during the ongoing elections in Jammu and Kashmir, state Director General of Police (DGP), Kuldeep Khoda said Tuesday.
During a checking operation by Special Operations Group (SOG) of police and CRPF in Gumat area of Jammu city, the three suspects were rounded up from a room in Samrat hotel as they failed to justify their presence there on the evening of December 21, the DGP said.
""Questioning has revealed that all three of them had come from Pakistan. They all belong to Jaish-e-Mohammad outfit and they had been deputed here to launch fidayeen attack. One of them revealed that he had been trained to take a loaded vehicle to a target which would be subsequently identified and exploded," said Khoda.
All the fidayeen were reportedly trained by Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Maulana Masood Azhar's younger brother Mufti Abdul Rauf.
The arrests came just two days after the Jammu police Sunday arrested four suspected terrorists including the commander of Harkat-ul-Jehadi-Islami at the Jammu railway station.
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