J&K terrorist attack: Captured Pakistani militant Naved claims "It's fun doing this"

The lone terrorist captured after the attack on BSF convoy in Udhampur has identified himself as Mohammed Naved from Faisalabad in Pakistan, who had a month ago entered Kupwara district in the Kashmir valley but retreated as he could not make any headway. A resident of Ghulam Mustafabad (Faisalabad) in Pakistan, Naved, believed to be in early 20s, has two brothers and one sister. One of them is a lecturer while the other runs a hosiery business.

During questioning at a joint interrogation centre in Jammu region, he said he had initially made an attempt to enter the Kashmir Valley a month ago but had to return as their guide had not turned up to receive them, official sources said. Naved identified the fellow terrorist killed in the retaliatory fire by BSF as Noman alias Momin, who hailed from Bhawalpur in Pakistan. The duo carried out an attack on a BSF convoy at Simroli near Udhampur killing two constables.

In the gun fight, Noman was killed while he managed to escape before being nabbed by the Village Defence Committee members, they said. "He was caught by those whom he took hostage. Two of them, besides some VDC members, also helped in his arrest during the operation," the DC said. Two BSF soldiers were killed and 11 personnel injured in the attack on a BSF convoy on Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Udhampur. Another terrorist involved in the strike was shot dead in retaliatory fire. After the attack in Nassu-Samroli area, escaped and took five people hostage in a school building in a nearby hamlet. "As I came out of my house after hearing gun shot, this militant came and asked me to come with him. He had already taken three-four people along," Rakesh Kumar, a youth who was taken hostage said. Army and Police then cordoned off the area surrounding the school to rescue the hostages.

"It's fun doing this" 

 "Its fun doing this," said Naved, a suspected Lashker-e-Taiba militant from Pakistan who was caught alive after the attack on a BSF convoy that killed two constables. The man, who says he hails from Faislabad in Pakistan, claimed before the media that he entered the Jammu region 12 days ago along with a fellow terrorist identified as Momin Khan. Khan was killed in retaliatory fire by BSF. This is the first suspected Pakistani terrorist to be captured alive after Ajmal Kasab, who was nabbed during the dreaded terror attack in Mumbai in 2008. 

"I came to kill Hindus," said Naved, dressed in a dark blue shirt and brown trousers, with a relaxed demeanour. He also alleged that Kashmiris were being killed all the time.  "It has been 12 days since I came here. We walked all days in the jungle," he said as villagers clicked pictures with the prize catch. "I am from Pakistan and my partner was killed in the firing but I escaped. Had I been killed, it would have been Allah's doing. There is fun in doing this," Naved said.

Initially, he said that he was in his early 20s but later claimed that he was only 16. He had been changing his statements. First he identified himself as Kasim and later as Usman. This has been the tactics of banned Lashker group sending youngsters to Jammu and Kashmir with the direction that in case they were caught, they should claim to be below 18 years so that they are tried as juveniles.