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NIA team arrives in Srinagar, grills captured Pak terrorist To shift him to Delhi for detailed interrogation 7/28/2016 11:49:50 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, July 28: Ahead of Home Minister Rajnath Singh's visit to Islamabad to attend SAARC ministerial conference beginning August 3 and in the backdrop of the growing strain in Indo-Pak ties, a team of the anti-terror NIA (National Investigation Agency) has arrived in Srinagar to question Lashkar-e-Taiba's Pakistani terrorist Bahadur Ali of Lahore, who was captured alive by army troops from Nougam sub-sector of Kupwara Tuesday last during an encounter with infiltrators. Four of his accomplices were shot dead by the alert army troops, following a gunbattle with them soon after they had infiltrated into the Indian territory, but he was captured alive. During questioning, he told his interrogators that the group of five was pushed into India by the Pak ISI to target Amarnath yatra, thereby disrupting peace in the state and elsewhere in the country, official sources said. Sources said after the army submitted its report to the government, giving a detailed account of the startling revelations made by the Pak terrorist, NIA team Wednesday reached Srinagar and put him to questioning Thursday. NIA would now take him to Delhi where he would be put to sustained interrogation to lay hands on more information about the Pak plans to foment trouble in J&K and other Indian states, sources said. He would the second Pak terrorist to be questioned by NIA after their capture in the state. Earlier, it was Pak terrorist Naved, who was apprehended in Udhampur. "Ali has told his interrogators that he and his four killed accomplices had been specially trained by Pakistan to carry out a suicide attack on the Amarnath pilgrims in Kashmir," sources said. Sources said NIA would prepare a detailed report of the Ali's interrogation and submit it to the home minister who was expected to raise the issue in his SAARC address.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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