Mohammed Naveed, the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist, who was arrested after he BSF convoy
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a truck driver who allegedly ferried Pakistani terrorist Mohammed Naveed to Jammu a day before he attacked a Border Security Force convoy on a national highway near Udhampur.
Naveed,a Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist, was captured after the attack on August 4; his accomplice was killed in an exchange of fire with the BSF. Two BSF soldiers were killed in the terror attack.
The truck driver arrested today has been identified as Khursheed Ahmed alias 'Surya', 35, allegedly an overground operative of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, which is a Pakistan based terror group. Ahmed lives in Awantipura in the Pulwama district of Kashmir.
Officials said Khursheed has served a two-and-a-half year prison term for allegedly smuggling drugs.
Naveed, who told his interrogators about Khursheed, was taken to Gulmarg in Jammu and Kashmir today. Yesterday, he was taken to Pulwama, where he reportedly identified the places that he hid in for over a month after he infiltrated into India on June 7 this year.
The NIA is reconstructing the sequence of events that led to Udhampur attack and is taking him to places that he has mentioned during interrogation.
Investigators are also working on getting the exact details of routes used by Naveed, the people who helped him in India and proof of him being in regular touch with his Pakistani handlers across the border.
The elite 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."
NIA chief Sharad Kumar was in the Valley yesterday and supervised the case.
Naveed was brought to Delhi on August 13, and has undergone a polygraph or lie detector test this week.