Attended
Sialkot training camp
Scribe visited Lashkar
Hqrs at Murid Ke
By Sanjeev Pargal
JAMMU, Oct 28: Arrested journalist
Farooq Ganaie, head of News Agency of
Kashmir (NAK), was today sent to Joint
Interrogation Centre (JIC) following
sensational revelations made by him that
he had even visited Murid Ke headquarters
of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) in July 2007 and
inter-acted with top militant commanders
of the outfit. Security agencies at the
JIC would try to ascertain whether he was
in touch with Hafiz Sayeed, the LeT chief
and mastermind of 26/11 Mumbai terror
attacks.
Meanwhile,
four top militants including LeT
commander Omar Bhai were tonight trapped
in the house of Mushtaq Ahmed between
Salwa and Pathana Peer in Mendhar tehsil
of Poonch district. Family of Mushtaq,
which had been held hostage by the
militants, was rescued by Army and police
late tonight. The house has been
surrounded and all out offence would be
launched in wee hours of tomorrow morning
to eliminate the militants. In the
exchange of firing so far, one militant
has been injured inside the house. Omar
Bhai was a dreaded militant of LeT outfit
involved in a series of subversive
activities across twin border districts
of Poonch and Rajouri.
Police
today arrested two LeT workers—one
in Jammu and three in Kishtwar. Rs 2.40
lakh worth hawala money was recovered
from the militant held in Jammu.
Official
sources said Ganaie has admitted during
his sustained questioning by police that
he had visited Murid Ke, the Lashkar
headquarters in July 2007 during his
media trip to Pakistan. It may be
mentioned here that major terror attacks
across the country were planned from the
LeT headquarters.
Sources
said it was yet to be ascertained whether
Ganaie had also met Lashkar chief Hafiz
Sayeed, who was responsible for most of
the terror strikes in India including
Jammu and Kashmir especially 26/11 Mumbai
terror attack.
From Murid
Ke, Ganaie was taken to Sialkot where he
was shown a training camp of LeT. He also
inter-acted with some militants of Jammu
and Kashmir in the training camp.
Ganaie was
today sent to JIC where he would be
jointly interrogated by Intelligence
agencies of Army, BSF, CRPF, RAW, IB and
police etc since he had supplied vital
information pertaining to security
agencies to the Field Intelligence Unit
(FIU), an Intelligence wing of
Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and
militant outfits.
Ganaie is
reported to have disclosed during his
preliminary questioning by police before
being dispatched to the JIC that he used
to save photographs and other sensitive
information in his email ID. He had
supplied his ID and password to the FIU.
The FIU used to download the information
with the help of Ganaie’s password
and then deleted it.
Police
have sought the help of BSNL to extract
Call Detailed Record (CDR) of
Ganaie’s mobile phone as he was
reported to have received several phone
calls from Pakistan including some from
the FIU officials and other from the
militant commanders.
Western
Union money transfer bank has also been
approached by the police to ascertain
exact amount received by Ganaie from the
FIU through hawala from Spain and other
countries since 2007.
Police and
Special Operations Group (SOG) today
arrested a LeT conduit along with Rs 2.4
lakh hawala money from Narwal. He has
been identified as Mohammad Hussain son
of Mohammad Sultan, a resident of Bagla,
Doda.
The hawala
money was meant for LeT ‘divisional
commander’ of Doda Abu Rafia. The
accused has been booked under Unlawful
Activities Prevention Act.
Army and
police arrested three Over Ground Workers
(OGWs) of LeT from Patnazi area of
Kishtwar district. They have been
identified as Mohammad Farooq, 21, son of
Abdul Aziz, Qadir, 21, son of Abdul
Rehman and Riaz Ahmed, 23, son of
Sabadin, all residents of Patnazi.
They were
being subjected to questioning.
Strike
paralyses life in Valley
Excelsior
Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Oct 28: Life in
Kashmir valley was paralyzed following
the strike call given by the chairman of
the hard-line faction of the Hurriyat
Conference in view of Prime Minister Dr
Manmohan Singh's visit to the State.
Protests were also taken out in various
parts of the city in opposition to the
Prime Minister's visit amidst tight
security arrangements. The Valley
observed a shutdown for the second
consecutive day even as people took to
streets and protested against Dr Singh's
visit, who had come to flag off the
Anantnag-Qazigund railway track.
Protests
were held at Maisuma, Abi Guzar and many
areas of the old city even as tight
security arrangements had been put in
place ahead of the Prime Minister's
visit. The protestors also pelted stones
at the police and security personnel
deployed on duty.
Most of
the shops, schools, colleges and business
establishments in the city remained shut
while work at the Government offices was
affected in view of the hartal call. All
modes of public transport remained off
the roads on most of the routes. However,
private vehicles could be seen plying in
the civil line areas.
Yesterday,
the Valley had observed a shutdown
following the Hurriyat call in protest
against the landing of the Indian Army
which was called to push back the tribal
raiders from Pakistan on October 27 in
1947.
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