Pak terrorist spills out 7/11 plot

Srinagar: A top Pakistani terrorist arrested by the Army in south Kashmir on Tuesday has given some vital clues about

the July 11 serial blasts in Mumbai, police sources said.

Elsewhere in Jammu and Kashmir, suspected militants killed a Special Police Officer (SPO) and wounded a security force personnel, while troops arrested a Hizbul Mujahideen ultra along with two hand grenades during the past 24 hours, an official spokesman said.

Touhfeen Akmal Hashmi alias Abu Amad, a Pakistani terrorist and the Al Badr Divisional Commander for Jammu and Udhampur areas, was arrested by troops of 3 Para from Nandmarg forest near Shopian in Kulgam area of south Kashmir at about 0330 hrs IST on Tuesday.

The terrorist was later handed over to the Kulgam Police.

During interrogation, sources said Hashmi admitted to knowing the perpetrators of the Mumbai serial blasts on July 11 in which nearly 200 people were killed and more than 700 wounded.

Hashmi revealed that 17 terrorists of the banned Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) were asked to carry out blasts in Mumbai.

While 16 terrorists returned safe, one might have been killed in the blast, they added.

Hashmi also claimed to have worked for the Pakistani Army before joining terrorist cadres, the sources said.

The spokesman said terrorists hurled a hand grenade towards the camp of BSF's 51 battalion at Town Hall in north Kashmir's Bandipora area at around 1545 hrs IST on Wednesday afternoon resulting in injuries to head constable Ramesh Kumar.

He has been hospitalised.

He said an encounter took place between terrorists and security forces at Khair under Banihal police station in Doda district of

Jammu region last evening in which SPO Jagdish Singh lost his life.

However, the terrorists managed to escape under the cover of darkness.

Terrorists shot at and wounded Javed Ahmed Tantray, a farmer, at Turkpora Handwara in frontier Kashmir district of Kupwara on Tuesday evening.

Tantray was admitted to the Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Science (SKIMS), Soura, for treatment, he added.

The spokesman said security forces apprehended a Hizb-ul-Mujahideen terrorist from a fish market at Baramulla in north Kashmir and confiscated two hand grenades from him on Tuesday evening.

Security forces during a routine search seized one wireless set, 100 AK rounds, one Pika round, three grenades, one Improvised Explosive Device (IED) and a bottle containing some chemical at Ongarra Picket-Gawala in the Uri sector on Tuesday evening, he added.