Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 28: The External Affairs Ministry was shortly expected to take up the issue of a large number of hideouts developed by Pakistan and Jammu and Kashmir militants in Kathmandu with Nepal Government. The issue would be taken up along with documentary evidence prepared by J&K Police and various other agencies engaged in anti-militancy operations including NIA during questioning of longest surviving militant Mehraj-ud-Din Wani alias Javed alias Daand.
Official sources told the Excelsior that multiple investigation agencies including Jammu and Kashmir Police, NIA, Intelligence Bureau and Delhi Police, which were involved in interrogation of Daand in Kishtwar during past over 20 days have come to a conclusion that peripheries of Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, were fast becoming a hub of Pakistan and Kashmir militants with the help of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
Interrogation of Daand has revealed that Nepal Army or police hadn’t been able to contain massive influx of militants in Kathmandu, from where they crossed over to Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh and then sneaked into various parts of the country including Jammu and Kashmir.
Daand had been putting up in Nepal for past over 17 years and had married a local girl from whom he had two daughters.
Sources said the investigating agencies were in the process of submitting a detailed report to Union Home Ministry and External Affairs Ministry based on the interrogation of Daand and another top militant Tanveer Ahmad, who had returned to Doda from Pakistan via Nepal mentioning details of the militant activities in Nepal capital.
According to sources, the Foreign Ministry would take up the issue of Pakistan and Kashmir militants’ hideouts in Nepal and their operation from peripheries of Kathmandu. The Government was likely to ask Nepal to take measures to stop anti-India terror activities from their soil, they said, adding the Government of India was expected to give enough evidence to Nepal on militant activities being carried out from the soil of the neighbouring country.
According to sources, a small town of Thamil on outskirts of Kathmandu has become hub of Kashmiri and Pakistani militants where they have developed hideouts and were carrying out activities to fan terrorism in the State.
They said Nepal has virtually become a transit route of the militants reaching India from Pakistan. In majority of cases, the militants had used fake passports to reach Kathmandu from Karachi and Islamabad and then crossed over to Uttar Pradesh on way to various Indian cities including Jammu and Kashmir.
During past few months, a number of militants including a big group of 17 Kashmiri ultras had reached the State from Nepal border after reaching Kathmandu from Pakistan. Some of them had also brought their Pakistani wives and children with them.
Javed alias Daand was arrested on Batote-Ramban stretch of Jammu-Srinagar National Highway by Kishtwar police. He was longest surviving militant having crossed over to Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) in 1987 in first group of five youth to start militancy. He had traveled six times to India from Pakistan via Nepal using fake passport.
Sources said there had been some other militants, who had also crossed over to India from Nepal after flying over to Kathmandu from Pakistan. They added that the militants were taking advantage of low profile of Pakistan Army and police in tackling militant activities as they were not well equipped to deal with terrorist activities.
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