Udhampur attack: Top LeT commanders saw off Naveed before he came to India

NEW DELHI: The Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) commanders for North and South Kashmir arrived in a car from Islamabad on May 25 at a mosque in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir to see off Mohammad Naveed and three other LeT terrorists before they came to India.

Such explosive details figure in a 39-page dossier prepared on Naveed by India which was to be handed over at the NSA-level talks that were subsequently cancelled.

"On May 25, Sajid aged about 45 years, the LeT Operations Commander for South Kashmir and Hanzla Asnan, also aged about 45, the LeT commander for North Kashmir along with Noman, a resident of Bahawalpur (terrorist killed in the Udhampur attack) arrived in a car from Islamabad at Halen Det Mosque, Forward Kathua, PoK," the dossier says. It adds that Noman was the " leader of the group" of terrorists who sneaked into India.

It adds that Naveed had arrived at this mosque in a LeT supply vehicle along with 4 other terrorists - Mohammad Bhai, Mouvaz, Abu Ali and Ahmed on May 21 straight after completing their 'Daura-e-Lashkar' training of 4 months at Aksa Maskar camp in Muzzafarabad. The LeT commanders handed over the following equipment each to the four terrorists, as per the dossier - a E-Trax GPS device, a wireless set, a compass, a printed map on flex sheet, an AK-47 with 6 magazines, 2 hand grenades, a digital watch, a black-coloured track suit, a pair of shoes and Rs 50000 of Indian currency.

"In addition, the group carried 2 mobile handsets but they were not used by them," the dossier says. It adds that Noman, Naveed, Abu Ukasha and Mohd Bhai started from Halen Det mosque on May 27 in a vehicle driven by one Abdullah Hafiz and two guides named Khurshid, a resident of Poonch and Rashid, a Bakkerwal from Chudhariyan Pallan, Forward Kathua, and two others named Zarrar and Jarar (caretakers of Halen Det mosque) accompanied the group till the LoC fencing at Faija Top from where the 4 terrorists entered India on June 2 while the guides, caretakers and Hafiz returned back.

The dossier adds that one Maulvi Bashir of Jamil Park in Ghulam Mohammad Abad in Faisalabad who owns a cloth printing workshop (his mobile number has been mentioned) motivated Naveed to join LeT and had dropped him at Markaz-e-Khyber in Nishtabad in Faisalabad from where one Abdullah Sultan took him to the terror camps on all three occasions from 2011 to 2015 when Naveed had underwent LeT training. The schedule at the training camp was hectic with few hours of sleep.

Naveed's schedule at LeT training camp, as per dossier:

3:30 am: Reveille (morning bugle) | 4 am: Tahajud (morning prayers) | 4:45 am: Fzr Namaz | 5:30 am: Physical exercises | 8 am: Class in Hadith | 8:30 am: Breakfast | 9 am: Weapons training | 11 am: Lecture on Jihad | 1 pm: Zuhr Namaz followed by lunch | 1:30 pm: Rest | 5 pm: Lectures followed by teaching of Quran | 7 pm: Maghrib Namaz followed by Darsh | 9 pm: Dinner | 10 pm: Isha Namaz and retire to sleep