Pak Army Colonel gave Rs 30,000 to attack Indian Army: Terrorist sent on suicide mission

India

oi-Deepika S

New Delhi, Aug 24: A ‘fidayeen’ attacker from PoK, who was captured by the Indian Army on August 21 at the Line of Control (LoC) in the Naushera sector of Rajouri district in Jammu and Kashmir, on Wednesday confessed that he was tasked by a colonel of the Pakistani Army to attack the Indian soldiers.

The terrorist, identified as Tabarak Hussain, revealed that Pakistani Colonel Yunus Chaudhry had given him around Rs 30,000 to carry out the mission.

Tabarak Hussain, a resident of Sabzkot village of Kotli in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), was arrested for the second time in six years while trying to infiltrate into the Indian side of the border, they said.

Speaking to news agency ANI from a Kashmir-based facility, Hussain said he tried to enter the Indian territory along with four-five other men.

Previously, he and his younger brother Haron Ali had undergone 26 months of imprisonment before being repatriated via the Attari-Wagah border in Amritsar.

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This time, he was apparently planning a ‘fidayeen’ (suicide) attack, the officials said.

“Mai marne ke liye aaya tha, mujhe dhoka de diya. Bhaijaan mujhe yahan se nikalo,” (I came to die but was betrayed. Brothers, pull me out from here), a wounded Hussain cried when the army arrested him, it was said.

Earlier, Rajouri SSP Mohammad Aslam had said that army troops guarding the LoC in Sehar Makri area of Nowshera sector noticed suspicious movement of an infiltrator, who was challenged but he started to run.

“On this, the intruder was fired upon and was then intercepted in an injured condition. He was provided medical facilities at the local army establishment and has now (been) shifted to the army hospital in Rajouri,” the officer said, adding he was responding positively to the treatment.

In April 2016, Hussain and his then 15-year-old brother Ali were sent with three other terrorists – Mohammad Kafil, Mohammad Ali and Yasin – from Kaldio-Sabzkot. They were carrying war-like stores and planned to plant Improvised Explosive Devices on operational tracks near forward posts used by Indian Army.

While Kafil, Mohammad Ali and Yain escaped, the two brothers were arrested on April 25 that year while trying to intrude into this side from Jhangar in Nowshera sector.

On December 16, 2019, another brother of Hussain, Mohammad Sayeed, was also apprehended by the army in the same area where he was caught this morning.

Sayeed was found to be under the heavy influence of drugs at the time of his arrest. He, too, was subjected to imprisonment and later repatriated, the officials said.

According to the officials, Hussain was cultivated by Pakistan Army, likely its intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence, and worked for the intelligence unit for about two years.

During this period, he was trained to acquire enemy information and establish cover story in case he was ever apprehended. He had also undergone six weeks’ training as a guide at an LeT training camp at Bhimber along the LoC.

with PTI inputs