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Guwahati : Hizbul Mujahideen, a Kashmiri separatist terrorist group had planned to three major explosions in Assam this year and to send 12 Assam youths for arms training in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
It has been revealed by Qamar-uz-Zaman, a Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist was arrested by the Lucknow Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) from Kanpur on September 12.
Qamar-uz-Zaman, originally hailing from Jamunamukh area in central Assam’s Hojai district is the same person whose photograph was appeared in the social media with an AK-47 rifle as a Hizbul ultra.
During interrogation by the Uttar Pradesh police, Qamar-uz-Zaman revealed that, Hizbul Mujahideen had planned to three major explosions at Lumding railway junction, Geeta Ashram in Hojai town and another area in Assam this year.
A top official of Assam police said that, the Kashmiri separatist terrorist group also planned to conduct recruitment drive in Assam and send at least 12 Assamese youths to Pakistan and Afghanistan for arms training.
“We have so far arrested seven persons including Qamar-uz-Zaman’s childhood friend 39-year-old Shahnawaz Alam, his elder brother Saiful Islam. The terrorist group also tried to set up base camps in Assam and Meghalaya and procurement arms from Nagaland based arms dealer, separatist groups. A Jammu and Kashmir origin leader of Hizbul Mujahideen came to Assam few months back and holding several meetings with some people and a religious
preacher. The Hizbul Mujahideen leader had visited several areas of Assam and Meghalaya,” the top Assam cop said.
The Assam cop further said that, Qamar-uz-Zaman had visited Assam in August last and travelled few areas in Hojai, Nagaon, Karbi Anglong and Barpeta districts.
Qamar-uz-Zaman, who failed in his BA third year examination, went missing in 2017 until April 2018, but he had undergone training in Pakistan in 2017.
The top Assam cop said that, Qamar had taken arms training under ISIS and joined Hizbul Mujahideen.
Meanwhile, a team of National Investigation Agency (NIA) had already reached at Hojai and been interrogating the seven suspected arrested till now.
(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)
