Airdropped arms were for J&K: Punjab official

CHANDIGARH:A huge cache of arms, including five AK-47 rifles and satellite phones allegedly dropped in Tarn Taran by drones from Pakistan, were mostly meant for Jammu and Kashmir, reveals the initial probe by Punjab Police. But it is not clear how the Khalistani Zindabad Force (KZF) planned to carry the weapons to Jammu and Kashmir.

The Punjab Police on Sunday busted a suspected KZF terror module, which was believed to be conspiring to launch terror strikes in Punjab and adjoining states, and arrested four people.

The police also seized five AK-47 rifles, pistols, satellite phones and hand grenades. “The interrogation of the accused has revealed that they were yet to get the further directions from the handlers sitting in Pakistan to deliver the cache in J&K,” an official privy to the probe said.

Punjab director general of police (DGP) Dinkar Gupta said the probe was being conducted on various angles keeping in mind.

“The National Investigation Agency has joined the probe and AHMEDABAD: An alleged terrorist wanted in a 2003 “jihadi conspiracy” case was arrested from the Ahmedabad airport after his return from Saudi Arabia, police said Monday. “The city crime branch and state ATS arrested Yusuf Abdul Wahab Shaikh, a native of Juhapura, when he landed at the airport,” said assistant police commissioner B V Gohil.

Gohil said Shaikh allegedly provided funds “to avenge the 2002 communal killings”. Police said the “jihadi conspiracy” was hatched to spread terror and eliminate VHP and other Hindu leaders.

we are trying to connect different dots.” He said there was ample evidence that delivery of arms was backed by Pakistani army.