New Delhi, December 23
In a bid to trace the whereabouts of the Jaish-e-Mohammad supreme commander in the country, Ghazi Baba, the special cell of the Delhi Police will take the main suspect in the Parliament attack, Mohammad Afzal, to Kashmir.
Police sources said Ghazi Baba, along with his associate Tariq, who had arranged the suicide squad for the attack, were reportedly hiding somewhere in the valley.
The Delhi police is taking Afzal to the valley, following his revelation to the police about a number of terrorist camps which are run by the ISI in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, including a few in Pahalgam in south Kashmir. The sources said, Afzal was expected to show militant hideouts and other areas where the militants generally operated from. Afzal was remanded in seven days of police custody on Saturday.
Senior police officials said the operation to trace the whereabouts of the elusive Jaish-e-Mohammad leaders was necessary as Ghazi Baba, was the mastermind behind the attack and Tariq organised arms and ammunition for the attack that took place on December 13.
The police said, the terrorists posed as tourists and took pictures of Parliament House with the help of digital camera during the recee of the Parliament.
It is revealed that the terrorists had used television snaps to generate a visual topography of Parliament, and investigations have so far found that they had used as many as 22 exposures from a highly sophisticated digital camera for framing their plan of action.
Some shots were taken mainly in the morning hours when the VVIPs, including Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Home Minister L.K. Advani, used to visit Parliament for question hour. The sources said some of the shots were taken during the Prime Minister’s arrival to Parliament to ascertain how the barricades were removed to have an easy access to the House.
Some crucial details from the seized laptop are yet to be decoded and computer experts are working for decoding the encrypted form of messages, the sources said, adding that it could yield vital information.
Even the mobile phones recovered from the militants revealed that they had made several calls to Karachi, Dubai and Germany, and the militants were given clear instructions not to call Pakistan directly and that was the reason they re-routed their conversation either from Germany or Dubai.
