Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Bahadur Ali's interrogation has unfurled how Pakistan-based terrorists, manage to dodge security forces for days, after in filtrating into India through the line of control, sometimes months without any problem.
Based on Ali's interrogation, Indian agencies -NIA and intelligence bureau-have identified several `infiltration routes' used by LeT, Jaish-e-Mohammad and Hizbul-Mujahideen cadres in north Kashmir. Ali's interrogation has revealed the modus operandi used by terrorists.
21 years old Ali, who was directed by Hafiz Saeed's son-in law Khalid Waleed to attack crowds in Kashmir with grenades, started for India on June 11-12 this year along with two others, Saad and Darda, after receiving full-fledged military training in LeT camps, identified as K2 in Manshera, Aksa (Muzaffarabad) and Tabbok in Muzaffarabad
Ali claime, "Each of us were given a backpack consisting of 20 rotis, dates, almonds, compass, night vision device, GPS, map, matrix sheets (with coded targets), unicode sheets, wireless sets, two sets of salwar kameez, medicines, AK-47 with 5 magazines having 30 rounds of live ammunition each and extra ammunition. Haider gave Rs 30,000 each to Saad and Darda and Rs 23,000 to me for meeting our expenses,"
They cut the barbed wire near the border at Handwara and entered the Indian territory. Ali informed, "We typically travelled from the wee hours till 9-10 am in the morning, rested during the day and resumed our journey between 5-6 pm and travelled till midnight. We reached a village - Vadar around June 20-21," .
Ali got separated from Saad and Darda on June 22, when they went to the village to collect food. Ali stayed in the jungle for almost one month and was continuously being assisted by suspected overground workers of LeT and other outfits. He said, "I spent three days near GR point 8 given by control room in Muzaffarabad.I got food from one Bakarwal (tribe on mountains) and then shifted to jungle near village Mokam. There one person provided me food,".
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By Prakriti Neogi
