ISI agent held in Kishtwar

Doda, December 7

In a major achievement, the police arrested an ISI agent in Kishtwar district on Friday.

The police claimed that Sehran Sheikh, alias Abu Zubair, of Malipeth in Kishtwar was working as an ISI agent and had exchanged important information with Pakistan.

The police said he was gathering information regarding the police, Armed Forces and security establishments. They said there were inputs that a banned terror organisation was using these agents to carry out terror attacks on security forces in the district.

Kishtwar SSP Rajinder Gupta said: “We have arrested an ISI agent in Kishtwar who was in contact with Pakistan-based terror organisation Harkat-ul-Mujahideen. He had sent many video clips and pictures of important installations of security forces and the Nashri tunnel to the terror organisation. We have arrested him and further investigation is on.”

The police claimed that the arrested person had confessed to his involvement. They said they had found that he had exchanged videos, including those of paramilitary forces establishments, with Pakistani numbers. With his arrest, the police have foiled a major terror plot. — OC