ACCOMPLICE OF LONDON BRIDGE ATTACKER HELD

LONDON/ISLAMABAD : Nazam Hussain, who along with London Bridge terrorist Usman Khan plotted to set up a training camp in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, has been arrested and sent back to jail after Friday’s attack in which Khan was shot dead after he stabbed two people to death.

Convicting Khan and Hussain of terror plots (along with others) in 2012, Judge Alan Wilkie had noted that “Usman Khan and Nazam Hussain were Pakistani in origin and their families came from the same village in Kashmir”.

“(They) intended to proceed on a more long term and sustained path, to establish and operate that terrorist military training facility, at which Usman Khan and Nazam Hussain would train, which would make them, and others whom they would recruit to be trained there, more serious and effective terrorists,” he had said.

Friday’s terror attack prompted an urgent review of as many as 74 convicted prisoners who had been released under licence. This included Hussain.

In Pakistan, protestors blocked the offices of Daily Dawn after the newspaper identified Usman Khan as a “UK national of Pakistani origin.”

After venting ire on social media, protesters chanted promilitary slogans and accused the paper of being anti-state.

Two ministers of the Imran Khan government were among those who slammed the paper.

Minister for science Fawad Chaudhry tweeted: “Shocked on your cheap attempt to link a British terrorist to Pakistan...britain should handle its problem within—irresponsible n cheap attitude.”