Author: Bashaarat Masood
Publication: The Indian Express
Date: October 3, 2011
URL: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/militant-says-got-training-from-pak-army-isi/854894/
The arrest of a Pakistani militant on the
Line of Control in Kupwara has exposed the role of the Pakistani army and
ISI in spreading terror in Kashmir, the Army's top commander in the Valley
Lt Gen S Atta Hasnain said on Sunday.
The militant, Nisar Ahmad, a resident of Karachi,
has reportedly confessed that he received training at a Lashkar-e-Toiba facility
at Mansehra from members of the Pakistan Army and the ISI, headed by Abdullah
Shaheen.
Captured while trying to cross the Line of
Control along with seven other alleged Lashkar members -during an encounter
that lasted five days - Ahmad has reportedly revealed that after training,
they were shifted to a Lashkar camp at Jamgrah and finally to the Kel Military
Garrison in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.
The garrison is located right opposite the
Machil sector on the border, from where the militants tried to get in. Again,
just before they left for the border, he and his group were given a briefing
by members of the Pakistani army and ISI, Ahmad told the Army.
"The arrest of this Pakistan national
and Lashkar militant has exposed the nexus between the ISI, Pakistan Army
and terrorist outfits in training, arming and psychological indoctrination
of Pakistani youth for infiltrating and carrying out acts of terror in Kashmir,"
Lt Gen Hasnain, the General Officer Commanding (GOC), 15 Corps, said at Trehgam
in Kupwara.
