In a video released by the Indian Army on Wednesday, a Pakistani militant captured near the Line of Control in Kashmir appeals to his alleg...
In a video released by the Indian Army on Wednesday, a Pakistani militant captured near the Line of Control in Kashmir appeals to his alleged handlers in Pakistan to take him back to his mother.
“I appeal to the Lashkar-e-Taiba area commander, the ISI [Inter-Services Intelligence based in Pakistan] and the Pakistan Army to take me back to my mother just like they sent me here [to India],” Ali Babar Patra, the teenage militant, said in the video message.
On September 26, Patra was captured in Uri after an appeal to him to surrender, according to an Indian Army statement released on Tuesday. He was one of six militants belonging to the Lashkar-e-Taiba who had attempted to infiltrate Uri in Baramulla district on the night of September 18, the statement said.
Army personnel had intercepted the infiltration attempt, after which four of the militants had returned to Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir while two managed to cross over, the statement added. The Army had then launched a search operation to find the two militants. Atiq ur Rehman, alias Qari Anas, was killed before Patra’s surrender on September 26.
In the video message, Patra claimed that the Pakistan Army, the country’s intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence, and the Lashkar-e-Taiba were spreading lies about the situation...
