Bahadur Ali Sent to Custody As NIA Tries to Decode Recovered Diary

The NIA released Bahadur Ali’s confession videos in which he accepted involvement of Pakistani terror outfits.

Bahadur Ali in the confession video released by the NIA. (Photo: ANI Screenshot)

A special court on Thursday sent Bahadur Ali, alias ‘Saifullah’, to NIA custody till 17 August after the agency said it needed to decode the writings in a diary recovered from him.

Merely hours after Pakistan rejected India’s charges of supporting infiltration in Kashmir on Wednesday, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) had revealed that the arrested Pakistani national Bahadur Ali was recruited by Jamaat-ud Dawa and was subsequently radicalised by Lashkar-E-Taiba.

Ali, who was arrested by Indian authorities in Jammu and Kashmir on 25 July, in a confession video aired by the NIA, said that he was trained in Pakistan.

A fourth-class dropout Ali, who is a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative and a Pakistani national, said that he was regularly guided by a control room of terrorist groups in Pakistan occupied Kashmir run with the help of Pakistani forces.

On Thursday, Vikas Swarup commented on the revelations made in the video and said:

Bahadur Ali’s confession has clearly revealed the details of kind of training provided to such young men, camps, weapons they are given. And most importantly the indoctrination that they undergo prior to infiltration into India. Capture of LeT Terrorist Bahadur Ali is yet another proof of Pak’s continued involvement in cross border terrorism & infiltration into India despite several assurances that it will not allow its territory to be used for terrorism against any other country

Vikas Swarup, Spokesperson Ministry of External Affairs

Pakistan also released a statement on the issue.

We have rejected the allegations or claim of any infiltration across Line of Control.

Nafees Zakaria, Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju called Ali a “very good catch” and said his arrest will lead to many successes.

Here are the Most Important Revelations from His Confession Video

LeT terrorist and Pakistani national Bahadur Ali, who was captured recently in North Kashmir, was regularly guided by the control room of terrorist groups in PoK with the help of Pakistani forces... Arms and ammunition training given to Ali shows the involvement of military experts.

National Investigation Agency

Ali’s Confession Exposes Pakistan’s Lies

NIA IG Sanjeev Kumar has said that Ali, in his confession, said that that there were as many as 50 trainees at training camps of LeT from different parts of Afghanistan, Pakistan and other countries.

Ali’s confession puts the Pakistan security establishment in poor light as it exposes their hand in supporting terror training camps against India in Pakistan occupied Kashmir.

The army also recovered three AK-47 rifles, two pistols and Indian Rs 23,000 from his possession.

(With inputs from ANI and PTI.)