A screen grab from an interrogation video of Sajad Ahmed, the second Pakistani terrorist captured by security forces this month.
Sajad Ahmed, the second Pakistani terrorist to be captured in Jammu and Kashmir this month, has told interrogators that he had been assigned by terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba to reestablish a network in North Kashmir, sources said.
Sajad, 22, was captured after a 20-hour gun battle with security forces yesterday. The four other terrorists in his group were killed in the encounter.
The security forces had used tear gas and "chilly grenades" to flush Sajad out of the cave that the group hid in in the Rafiabad area of Baramulla in North Kashmir.
It was in Rafiabad, about 25 km from the Line of Control, that the group of terrorists were to have set up the Lashkar network, sources said.
After his capture, Sajad was shifted to an interrogation centre in Srinagar, where he has been questioned since yesterday.
Sajad Ahmed was captured after a 20-hour gunbattle with security forces.
Sajad, who has allegedly told interrogators that his family lives in Muzaffargarh of Pakistan's Multan province, has said he worked as a labourer before being inducted and trained by the Lashkar in Pakistan.
His group of terrorists infiltrated into India between August 17 and 20, he has told interrogators.
Earlier this month, Mohammad Naveed, another Pakistani terrorist trained by the Lashkar, was captured after he attacked a paramilitary convoy in Udhampur.
Naveed, who was in the Kashmir Valley for nearly two months before the attack, has revealed crucial details to investigators.
"The arrest of yet another Pakistani terrorist strengthens our position. There remains little doubt about Pakistani involvement in propping up terror," said Union Minister of State for Home, Kiren Rijiju, after Sajad's capture on Thursday.
India had planned to raise recent terror attacks - in Udhampur and Punjab's Gurdaspur - and the revelations of Naveed, in a meeting with Pakistan's National Security Advisers scheduled for Monday; the meeting was canceled at the eleventh hour amid sharp disagreements. Islamabad has disowned Naveed, who had said just after his capture that he belonged to Faisalabad in Pakistan.