Author: Arun Joshi
Publication: The Hindustan Times
Date: January 22, 2006
URL: http://www.hindustantimes.com/2006/Jan/23/181_1605620,0008.htm
Three of the 32 Pakistanis visitors who went
missing after the Indo-Pak cricket series in India last year may have been
involved in the terror attack at the Indian Institute of Sciences in Bangalore
in December.
Noor Mohammad (from Karachi), Abdul Waheed
Bhat (Lahore) and Inyatullah Khan (Bannu) were among the Pakistanis who had
entered India on valid passports to watch cricket matches in March last year.
In their visa applications they had said they
had relatives in Bangalore, whom they planned to visit during their stay in
India.
After a trip to Bangalore, the three men went
missing.
These facts came to light when investigating
agencies learnt the details of the places the missing Pakistanis had listed
for their visit.
The J&K Police, who have got in touch
with their counterparts in Bangalore, have asked the Pakistan government to
provide more details about these persons.
"Their going missing and the terror attacks
taking place in Bangalore, and the possibility of other south Indian capital
cities figuring in the target list, cannot be a mere coincidence," an
intelligence official told HT. "We suspect the three men may have links
with or may be a part of the terror network in south India that organised
the attack in Bangalore."
Professor M.C. Puri, professor emeritus at
IIT Delhi, died in the attack.
