Pakistani terrorist Usman was captured by the villagers he took hostage
Soon after
he was captured in Udhampur today, a Pakistani terrorist told the police that he started for India 12 days ago and had been in the country for two days.
The terrorist - who the police first said was named Usman Khan and then later identified as Mohammad Naved - seemed remarkably unperturbed at being captured and smiled as he answered questions thrown at him by cops and villagers who surrounded him on a hilltop. The interaction was videotaped.
"There was just the two of us," he said. And also that they had "come through the jungles," adding wryly, "Which train, bus would come here?" when asked how they had travelled.
The terrorist revealed that they finished the food they had carried with them in the first three days and that they broke into a house for more.
Asked what he had planned to do next, the man said, "What plans, I've been caught." All this while his hands were bound behind him with a rope, but the terrorist displayed no discomfort or fear.
The police later led the terrorist down the hill, a cloth covering his face.
Comparisons are being drawn with Ajmal Kasab, the only Pakistani terrorist captured alive after the 26/11 terror attack on Mumbai in 2008. Like Kasab, Naved is in his early 20s and has allegedly told interrogators that he is a member of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, the terror group that Kasab belonged to.
Naved, his interrogation allegedly revealed, is a resident of Ghulam Muhammadabad in Pakistan's Faislabad.
This morning, the two terrorists attacked a convoy of the Border Security Force on a highway near Udhampur. Two soldiers and the other terrorist were killed in the firing.
Naved raced into a village nearby and took a group of people hostage. After nearly four hours, the
villagers overpowered the terrorist - one pinned him down and another took way his AK-47 rifle.