Pakistani terrorist Mohammed Naved was caught in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur on Wednesday
Mohammed Naved, the terrorist captured yesterday in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur, left Pakistan Occupied Kashmir on May 27 and crossed the Line of Control into India on June 2.
These are exclusive details from Naved's interrogation by the police and security forces in Jammu through the night and much of today.
Naved has reportedly revealed that he and other terrorists with him cut the fence between Naugam and Gulmarg to enter Jammu and Kashmir.
Five days later, they allegedly used GPS to reach a shrine in Tangmarg.
It was only in the last week of July the terrorists moved from Tangmarg to Pulwama in South Kashmir, where they allegedly got help from locals.
Naved has told interrogators that the terrorists stopped in Srinagar to collect money from persons who remain unknown.
The terrorist has reportedly said that several locals in Pulwama and Kulgam helped them and gave them shelter.
After 65 days in the Kashmir Valley, the terrorists headed for Udhampur.
Naved had earlier given several contradictory and inconsistent accounts of when he infiltrated into Jammu and Kashmir and from where.
Rigorous questioning revealed that it was across the Line of Control in the Kashmir valley - and not the International Border in Jammu - that Naved made his entry from, aided, according to sources, by guides on the Pakistani side of the border.
Just before the terror attack, they were given specific orders to target the National Highway on the stretch that is south of the Banihal Tunnel. Interrogation reveals that Naved and the second terrorist, who was killed, traveled in three trucks to cover the journey from the valley across the tunnel into Udhampur.
Their orders were to target the frequently moving military convoys of the Central Reserve Police Force, the Border Security Force and the Army on the highway.
Sources say Naved may have met the terrorists killed in the Pulwama encounter today.
A terrorist suspected to belong to the Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba was killed and two more terrorists are believed to be holed up in a house.