Mohammad Naved, the Pakistani terrorist caught after the attack on BSF convoy in Udhampur, Jammu.
Intelligence officials say the capture of a Pakistani terrorist after an attack on a security convoy in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur today could lead to new evidence of repeated terror attacks against India organized across the border. Naved was seen by many as the first big catch after Ajmal Kasab, the Pakistani terrorist hanged for the 26/11 attacks.
The 22-year-old terrorist was caught after three villagers he took hostage overpowered him and took away his gun. He has told investigators that his name is Mohammad Naved and he is from Pakistan.
According to sources, Naved has said in his interrogation that he is from Ghulam Muhammadabad in Pakistan's Faislabad, that he has two brothers - one a lecturer and another a small businessman - and a sister, and that he belongs to the Lashkar-e-Taiba terror group.
A second terrorist who came with Naved has been identified as Noman or Nomi, a resident of Bahawalpur.
Sources say the two crossed over to India recently.
Various media reports have labelled Naved as "Kasab II" and "Another Kasab."
The comparisons went beyond an obvious physical resemblance.
Naved is believed to be 22. Kasab, after first claiming he was a minor, told his interrogators that he was 21.
Like Kasab, Naved is also believed to have been trained by the Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Kasab was the only terrorist caught alive after the three-day terror siege in Mumbai in 2008, in which 166 people were killed. He told interrogators that he was from the Faridkot village in Pakistan.
His confession revealed details of the 26/11 plot and the fact that the 10 terrorists were in touch with handlers in Pakistan.
Today's catch comes just a day after a Pakistani investigator involved in the 26/11 investigation said in an editorial in the Dawn newspaper that the attack was "planned and launched" from Pakistani soil.
Tariq Khosa, who was appointed to head Pakistan's premier Federal Investigating Agency or FIA soon after the attack, said Kasab was a Pakistani national whose place of residence and initial schooling as well as his joining a banned terrorist organisation was established by the investigators.