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Author: Mohit Kandhari
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: September 2, 2005
It's official. Pakistan has started using the Nepal circuit for pushing trained militants into India.
Although intelligence agencies in India have been saying this for some time now, on Thursday when security forces presented a 21-year-old surrendered militant of Harkat-ul-Jehad-al-Islami (HUJI), Mohd Amin Chopan, who travelled to India via Nepal, in front of the media, it was out in the open.
Amin, armed with a weapon and a fake passport also blasted Pakistan's dubious claim that it is not running terror camps from its soil.
Amin, who was trained in a militant camp near Rawalpindi for seven years, told reporters here that at least 6,000 Kashmiri militants are at present undergoing commando training in militant training camps in Pakistan.
Almost every tanzeem has its operations base in Pakistan where militants are trained in arms and explosives use and guerrilla warfare, he said.
The decisions related to operations are normally taken by chief of the Hizbul Mujahideen, Salauddin and Maulana Masood Azhar, he told reporters when asked about the training he underwent in Pakistan.
In 1998, when in Class VII, Amin was forcibly recruited by Sikander Hayat, a HUJI terrorist, who was later killed. He went from Rajouri-Poonch to Nikyal into Pakistan. He underwent training along with 70 other boys for 90 days at Gair Alak.
Under pressure from the Pakistan Government to reduce the level of militancy in Kashmir, militant commanders in Pakistan also directed their field commanders to avoid direct confrontation with Indian security forces, Amin told reporters.
"We were given motivational lectures and shown action and propaganda films. The training recruits were also given incentive for excelling in various aspects of training," he added. According to Amin, trainees are given Rs 2,000 per month during their stay in camps.
He obtained his passport in February 2005 under the fictitious name of Iltaf Hussain Shah and returned to India via Nepal and reached Bahihal by train and bus. He was given Rs 15,000 in Indian currency and Rs 3,000 in Pakistan currency besides an air ticket while returning.
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