Udhampur:
A Pakistani man has
in an interview to newspaper Hindustan Times admitted that the terrorist captured in India on Wednesday is his son.
His declaration comes even as Pakistan denied any links to the terrorist and said he is not a Pakistani citizen. "Need cooperative approach, not blame game to combat terror. We expect Indian authorities to share necessary information about him with us to enable verification of his national status," Pakistan said on Thursday.
From across the border, the man, Mohammad Yakub, told the Hindustan Times on phone that he is the 'unfortunate father' of the terrorist captured in Udhampur, who has told Indian investigators that his name is
"Naved".
"I'll be killed, Lashkar and the Pakistani army are after us," the father was quoted as saying by the newspaper. Naved, believed to be in his early 20s, has said he has two brothers and one sister. One of the brothers is a lecturer while the other runs a hosiery business.
Naved was caught after
a deadly assault on a convoy of the Border Security Force or BSF in which two soldiers were killed. Naved's companion was shot dead, but he escaped into a village and took three men hostage.
They later over-powered him and handed him over to the police.
The terrorist, who has said he belongs to Faislabad in Pakistan, entered India 45 days ago via the Kashmir Valley, sources said to NDTV, describing him as a
"hardened terrorist". He has reportedly revealed he was trained by the terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which struck Mumbai in 2008, killing 166 people.
"We have said many a times that making immediate accusations on Pakistan is not correct. These things should be based on facts. We expect that whenever Pakistan is being accused of something, it will be accompanied with correct evidence," Pakistan Foreign Office Spokesperson Syed Qazi Khalilullah said about the terrorist today.