Uri attack: Two class 10 Pakistani students who strayed across LoC guided terrorists, says report

Two class 10 Pakistani students who strayed across the Line of Control (LoC) guided the terrorists who attacked 12 Infantry Brigade’s headquarters in Jammu and Kashmir's Uri, Indian Express reported.

The duo — Faisal Husain Awan and Ahsan Khursheed — who were arrested by the Army three days after the attack have reportedly confessed to facilitating the infiltration of a group of four Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) cadre.

Faisal is a resident of Potha Jandgran in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Ahsan Khursheed hails from Khilayana Khurd in Muzaffarabad. 

"The two were at home on September 17. I don’t want any controversy or recrimination, which is why I hadn’t contacted the media. I am his older brother, and I am supposed to protect him. I do not know what to do. I can only hope someone powerful in India reads our story and sends these boys home,” Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum, Faisal Awan’s brother and a Lahore-based physician told the daily.

Basharat Husain, the principal of the Shaheen Model School in Muzaffarabad described Awan, a science student, as “a model student, respectful and friendly." He said that Awan had just graduated from Class IX with a first division.

On September 18, a militant attack on an army base in Uri claimed the lives of 19 soldiers. The armed militants lobbed grenades into their tents and barracks, while the soldiers were sleeping. The ensuing fire led to a large number of casualties. Twenty-eight injured soldiers are being treated at a military hospital.

Pakistan has demanded an independent international probe into the terror attack in Uri, dismissing India's allegations that militants from Pakistan were involved in it as "baseless". Pakistan Prime Minister's Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz alleged that India always accuses Pakistan without even conducting an investigation into the matter.