Terrorist Naveed was caught by three villagers in Udhampur who he had taken hostage on August 5
Pakistani terrorist Mohammad Naveed had planned a terror strike in Jammu more than a month before he attacked a Border Security Force convoy in Udhampur on August 5, he has allegedly told interrogators.
The elite National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a truck driver today who allegedly drove Naveed to Jammu on June 27.
The driver has allegedly told the police that he had driven Naveed and another terrorist called Hukasha to Jammu but did not allow them get out of the truck and stage a terror attack on security forces.
Sources said the two Pakistani terrorists had at that time visited a juice factory in the Bari Brahmana industrial area and that the NIA has obtained CCTV footage from the factory.
On August 4, Naveed and another Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist named Noman were taken in another truck to Udhampur. The next day, they attacked the BSF convoy on a national highway near Udhampur. That truck driver is yet to be arrested.
Noman was killed in an exchange of fire with the BSF. Naveed escaped but was captured by local villagers.
The truck driver arrested today has been identified as 35-year-old Khursheed Ahmed alias 'Surya', allegedly an overground operative of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, which is a Pakistan-based terror group. Ahmed lives in Charsoo village in the Pulwama district of Kashmir.
Naveed has told interrogators that he hid in Pulwama for over a month after he infiltrated into India on June 7 this year. The NIA took him yesterday to Pulwama, where he reportedly identified the places that he hid in.
Today, the terrorist was taken to Baba Reshi near Gulmarg, as the NIA reconstructs the sequence of events that led to the Udhampur attack.
The anti-terror agency is focusing on building a water-tight case to prove that Naveed is a Pakistani national. While the terrorist has told interrogators that he is from Faislabad in Pakistan and has even allegedly located his home on Google maps, Islamabad has rejected that claim and wants "scientific evidence."