Six militants, including JeM member, arrested in Jammu and Kashmir

Das said the Jaish militant Mohammad Sadiq Gujar of Sialkot, Pakistan, a teenager, was among the fidyaeen who carried out an attack on an army camp in Tanghdar area of Kupwara on November 25 past year.

“The militant has revealed that he had come with an aim to carry out multiple fidayeen attacks in north Kashmir”.

However, while his three accomplices attacked the camp, Gujar had escaped and spent a long time in local forests.

He was accompanied by three associates who were killed in the November attack.

Mohammad Sadiq, 19, a resident of Sialkote in Pakistan, smiled to the dozens of cameras gathered inside the DIG’s office in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district; he appeared calm when he was paraded before the media on Thursday. He was asked by his handlers to go to Kupwara.

Defence sources said that army and J&K police caught Mohammad Sadiq Gujjar, 17. “After sustained operations a Pakistani Fidayeen was overpowered near Kanispora and apprehended”, the newspaper quoted a police spokesman as saying.

“The fidayeen told his interrogators that the JeM militants were launched from Athmuqam in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and was tasked to attack any army camp near the LoC (Line of Control)”, the spokesman said. “After reaching Kupwara he was told to wait for a contact who will take him to another place and with the help of some people he reached Baramulla”, DIG, Das, said.

He was lured by his school friend into militancy, who is also a JeM militant.

Before entering Kashmir, Sadiq had received three months of training in a JeM camp, where he was trained in in a Fidayeen attack.

A news report said that Gujjar was active in the Baramulla area for the past 15 days and was put under surveillance, leading to his arrest. The five others arrested were identified as Suhail Arif, Rasshid Rasool Bhat, Javaid Ahmad Dhobi, Farhan Fayaz and Ehsan Fayaz.

Security forces recovered one AK-47 rifle, five AK magazines, 150 AK rounds, six grenades and a wireless set from the militants.