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| Congress MLA played host to LeT ultra Who later conspired to "assassinate" Azad | | | BHARAT BHUSHAN
JAMMU, Apr 27: In 2003, a Congress MLA played host to a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant who later conspired to "assassinate" Ghulam Nabi Azad in Bhaderwah town when he was J&K chief minister.
However, before he could move forward with his plan, the major LeT network fell into the effective and intelligence-driven dragnet of security forces in 2006.
Known as a strategic planner and die-hard LeT militant, Nisar Ahmad alias Abu Saria (wireless set code 44), who was alleged to have been tasked to eliminate Azad in 2006, had a 3-day comfortable stay
at the Congress MLA's residence in the winter capital in 2003.
This startling revelation was scripted in a secret official letter No PSA/DM/07/12 dated September 19, 2007. Its contents are based on a dossier submitted to a senior officer by the SSP who headed Doda
district in 2007.
The letter said Pak militants -- Abu Ayoub Ansari, Abu Aki and Abu Afran -- regularly visited Nisar's house at Dandi in Bhaderwah for food, shelter, clothes, fruit and other items of daily use which he
purchased for them from the Bhaderwah city market.He also allegedly updated top LeT cadres and his bosses on the movement of security forces and carried arms and ammunition for
them. He, however, became an active militant in 2002 on Ansari's motivation. In 2001, Ansari took him to Kapran forests in Anantnag where LeT's Abu Haroon Pathan of Sarhad, Pakistan, and Abu Waqas of Punjab, Pakistan, waited for them along with five other new recruits.
It took them 30 days to trek thickly-forested mountains of Thathri, Kishtwar and Marwah to reach Kapran woods.Haroon and Waqas further took Nisar and five new recruits to Kahyawali dhok in Poonch via Banihal and Gulabgarh forests. At Kahyawali, they were received by LeT commander Abu Waris of
Karachi, Pakistan, and 20-25 fresh recruits. After 10 days, Nisar and 16 others crossed the Line of Control (LoC) from Poonch under the guidance of LeT's Abu Junaid and Abu Taibi, both Pakistanis,
and reached Kahuta in PoK.
At Kahuta, Pak army Captain Ali took them to his post and provided them tea. From there, all the 17 were taken to a LeT launching pad in the area and then to the outfit's transit camp at Kotli in
Muzaffarabad by bus where they stayed for 10 days.rom the transit camp, they were taken to Betul Mujahideen LeT office and imparted training at Doura-e-Amanat, Umalkora camp, in
grenade throwing and in the opening and joining of AK rifles, pika guns, rocket launchers and Chinese pistols. They underwent this training session in September/October 2001.
There was then a rest of 10 days, but during this time, Nisar worked as storekeeper in LeT ration/medical store at the Kotli transit camp.
In November 2001, they were imparted a 3-month training in the handling of AK rifle, pika gun, pistol, 7 mm rifle and throwing of grenades.
Provocative and anti-India lectures were also included in their training. These lectures were given by LeT commanders -- Zukiur Rehman and Dr Iqbal.
For short courses in sabotage activities, they were sent to DE-Gul Mujahideen, Muzaffarabad, for eight days and Gari Habibullah, Muzaffarabad, for five days.
Nisar and another militant Sohib were also sent to Khushab LeT training centre, Rawalpindi.
In January 2003, Nisar came back to Kotli camp where its incharge Auqul Rehman Amir prepared his fake identity card of a shopkeeper, mentioning his name as Nazir Ahmad, son of Ghulam Ahmad Khan of Sartingle, Bhaderwah. The card bore the fake stamp and signature of Bhaderwah police station SHO.
The camp incharge then concealed 4.5 lakh Indian currency notes in the denomination of Rs 1,000 each in a hollow cricket bat and gave it to Nisar to carry it to India as part of the hawala money. For
his personal use in India, he was given Rs 2,500. On January 27 evening, he and LeT militants -- Abu Haider and Abu Rehman -- reached Pak Derman village close to the International
Border (IB) on a motorcycle. When it grew dark, they helped him to sneak into the Indian territory from Kanhachak area. He breached the barbed wire fencing without any problem.
After crossing the river and open fields that came his way, he reached the road from where he took a bus for general bus stand here.
At the bus stand, he boarded a bus for Kishtwar. Reaching Pul-Doda, Nisar, however, got down from the bus and took a minibus for Doda where he spent the night. Next day, he allegedly went to the house of Ashfaq Ahmad at Domail near Sarna, Bhaderwah, and gave him the bat.
The bat was broken and Rs 4.5 lakh were taken out of it. He remained in Ashfaq's house for 15 days as his guest. Rs 1 lakh were given by Ashfaq to Zakir Hussain of Shiva.
Nisar and Zakir later went to the house of Yaqoub at Dhar where Hafiz Peer of Chitran was also present. Rs 1 lakh were given to Peer.
He also had an encounter with security forces at Dashnah during the same time, but had managed to escape. At Peer's instance, he came to Jammu in February 2003 to rope in
some local youth here in the LeT hawala racket. According to the letter, he had a 3-day stay in the house of a Congress MLA here. To motivate youth to become part of LeT hawala
racket, he had also gone to Bagh-e-Bahu and met some people there. o one, however, dared to question his identity during his stay in the MLA's house, the document said. After spending three days in the winter capital city, he returned to Pul-Doda where he stayed in the house of tyre repair shop owner
Mohammad Din.
Later, on the directions of Abu Bilal, LeT commander for Dheikhpur, Pakistan, he and Abu Hamza went to Marmat via Kuku Dhar and Dadni/Muthi, and remained active in Seouj Dhar, Bhaderwah, till
November 2004 when he went to Kupwara to receive PoK nationals and LeT militants -- Abu Hashim and Abu Usama. In 2005, Nisar and Abu Mir went to Dandi to meet one Mushtaq, who was accompanied by three Pak militants and carried a trunk which contained 3 AK rifles along with six loaded magazines, a carbine, 3 pouches and some grenades.
He kept the carbine with himself and handed over other arms and ammunition to LeT commander Abu Tallah in Puneja nullah. Before calling on him, he had also met one Qayoom Bagwan at Pasri,
Bhaderwah.
In January 2006, Tallah received a message from his Pak handler to assassinate Azad. He, in turn, tasked Nisar to execute the orders with the help of two other LeT cadres. On March 24, 2006, when he went to the house of Bashir Ahmad, a fire services department employee, at Bhaderwah, he was captured by
security forces on a tip-off. He had come to Bhaderwah to recce the area before the arrival of
Azad for the inauguration of a university campus in the town. He, however, could not succeed due to high security alert, the document added.
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