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By DEVESH K. PANDEY, Courtesy: Daily The Hindu, India
In yet another revelation, Abdul Karim Tunda, alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba ideologue, has said that back in Pakistan he was in regular touch with the former Inter-Services Intelligence chief, Hamid Gul. Till recently he maintained links with several other Pakistani intelligence officials also to garner support for terror activities in India.
“LeT is virtually an arm of Pakistan’s ISI through which young men were recruited on a paltry monthly allowance of roughly Rs. 4,000 for conducting ground operations. Tunda, who was once a very powerful figure in the Lashkar hierarchy, still wielded influence when it came to making recruitments for the outfit. During interrogation, he has disclosed that he was in direct touch with Hamid Gul,” said a senior Special Cell officer of the Delhi Police.
Tunda has purportedly told the interrogators that during 1996-98, he sent his men to carry out blasts in and outside Delhi. The police suspect that his conduits carried out the blast outside the Police Headquarters in January 1997. “Since the CBI is investigating the case, it would interrogate Tunda to gather specific details. During questioning, Tunda has confessed to having masterminded the blasts triggered in 1996-98,” said the officer.
The police would produce Tunda before a city court on Tuesday seeking further custody in a case registered at the Malviya Nagar station way back in 1994. Seven persons were arrested in that case and a consignment of explosives was recovered from them. While two of the accused were acquitted, Tunda was declared a proclaimed offender.
“Tunda has disclosed that certain incidents [riots] reported in 1984 perturbed him and he took to extremism. A supplier of garments, Tunda learnt to configure pipe-bombs during a visit to Tonk in Rajasthan after he attended a meeting of the Ahle-Hadees sect there in 1985. It was once while experimenting that a bomb exploded, amputating his left arm,” said the officer. “Tunda has disclosed that certain incidents [riots] reported in 1984 perturbed him and he took to extremism.”
However, Mr. Gul told TV channels that he had never met Tunda.
Courtesy: Daily The Hindu
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