Truck driver who helped Naved held

Jammu: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) escorted the captured Pakistani terrorists Mohammed Naved Yakub to Kashmir. The NIA is trying to reconstruct the sequence of events which led to the attack on a BSF platoon in Udhampur and consequently, Naved's capture. Naved was subjected to a lie detector test on August 17 after he had made 'contradictory and misleading' statements about his Indian contacts and the route taken his group to infiltrate India.

Naved was kept in isolation for some time before being subjected to the polygraph test.

Naved and another terrorist, Noman, had attacked a BSF bus on August 5 at Narsu Nallah in Udhampur district, killing two troopers and injuring 11 others. While Noman was killed in the gunfight with BSF troopers, Naved managed to escape to Samroli, 15 km from the attack site on the Jammu-Srinagar highway. He later took three people hostage in a house in Chirdi village. NIA arrested truck driver who had allegedly helped Lashker-e-Taiba Mohd Naved Yakub. The driver has been identified as 35-year-old Khursheed Ahmed alias 'Surya', allegedly an overground operative of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, which is a Pakistan-based terror group. Ahmed lives in Charsoo village in the Pulwama district of Kashmir. According to another report, Naveed had planned a strike in Jammu more than a month before he attacked a BSF convoy in Udhampur on August 5. Sources said the two Pakistani terrorists had at that time visited a juice factory in the Bari Brahmana industrial area and that the NIA has obtained CCTV footage from the factory.

Naveed has told interrogators that he hid in Pulwama for over a month after he infiltrated into India on June 7 this year. The NIA took him to Pulwama, where he reportedly identified the places that he hid in.

The terrorist was taken to Baba Reshi near Gulmarg, as the NIA reconstructs the sequence of events that led to the Udhampur attack.