2 Kashmiri youths from Pak apprehended

Author: Times News Network
Publication: The Times of India
Date: September 15, 2003
URL: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com:80/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=181282

Border Security Force (BSF) personnel apprehended two Kashmiri youths who entered Roranwala from Pakistani village of Wagah after fleeing from the arms training camp running at Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK), informed Darbara Singh, Officiating DIG, BSF while talking to media on Sunday.
 
The youth Arshad Ahmed, 18, resident of Rainawari and Mukhtyar Ahmad, resident of Vainka in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir claims to have been abducted by the Hijbul Mujahadeen (HM)terrorists on August 20 and were forced to undergo arms training and resort to disruptive activities in India on the name of Jehad (holy war).
 
Tension mounted at the border after the Pakistani Rangers demanded from BSF to hand them over on the pleas that they were Pakistani nationals. However Pak Rangers failed to provide their identity as demanded by BSF during a flag meeting held at border.
 
Why the Pak Rangers didn't shoot them despite the fact that they were chasing them, as claimed by BSF, remains an unanswered question?
 
Darbara Singh said that BSF patrolling party saw two intruders coming towards India near border pillar number 104. Upon challenging them they informed that they were Indians. The Pakistani troops stopped their movement at the International border and took positions, he said.
 
The preliminary interrogation revealed that they had gone to Gulmarg for picnic on August 19 and were kidnapped on August 20 by HM terrorists from the woods of Gulmarg and taken to Muzafarabad in PoK .
 
He said both of them claimed to have given slip to camp leaders on pretext of undergoing treatment and managed to reach Lahore from where both of them reached Pak village of Wagah and entered the Indian territory.
 

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