JeM coordinator for India, Bangladesh nabbed in Dhaka (Lead)
February 28th, 2010 - 9:54 pm ICT by IANSDhaka, Feb 28 (IANS) A Pakistani militant nabbed here Sunday confessed to working as coordinator of Jaish-e-Mohammed in Bangladesh and as a recruiter for operations in India.
Rizwan Ahmed, 26, of Karachi made the confession at a media briefing at the headquarters of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) that arrested him from Sukanya Tower, opposite Dhaka College in the national capital, Star Online reported.
He is one of the five operatives of the Pakistan-based militant organisation arrested from various parts of Bangladesh, an official said Sunday.
Four others are Bangladeshi citizens.
They are two brothers — Imazuddin alias Munna and Sadek Hossain alias Khoka — sons of Mohiuddin of Hajiganj thana in Chandpur, Abu Naser Munshi of the same district, and Nannu Mia alias Belal Mandol of Kotwali thana in Sylhet.
The JeM has been held responsible for the Dec 13, 2001, terrorist attack on the Indian Parliament in New Delhi, benews24.com said.
The JeM is a relatively new terrorist outfit, compared to other major outfits active in Jammu and Kashmir. Like the Lashkar-e-Taeba (LeT), the JeM too is an outfit formed, controlled and manned by Pakistan.
The outfit was launched on Jan 31, 2000, by Maulana Masood Azhar in Karachi after he was released from an Indian jail during the terrorists-for-hostage swap of Dec 31, 1999, following the hijacking of the Indian Airlines Flight IC 814 to Kandahar, Afghanistan.
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