NEW DELHI: Arrested Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Zabiullah has told the NIA that he had entered India to carry out “large scale attacks” on security forces, National Investigation Agency said today in a statement.
He told the agency during the questioning that he had come into India fully armed in March this year, along with five other LeT cadres to target security forces but before he could indulge in an attack, they were confronted by the forces in which members of his team were killed, the NIA said.
“He managed to escape from encounter site,” it said.
20-year-old Zabiullah, a resident of Bosan Road, Mehmood Kote in Multan, Pakistan, said he came “fully armed” in March this year with 22-year-old Darda of Lahore, 26-year-old Shuram of Multan, 20-year-old Faidullah of Gujrawalan, 19-year-old Ummar of Sindh, 19-year-old Kari of Peshawar, Pakistan. (AGENCIES)