Nabbed JeM Guides Identified Uri Attacker: MEA Tells Pak Envoy

Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar informed Basit about the two youths who acted as guides for Pakistani infiltrators.

Abdul Basit, Pakistan High Commissioner to India. (Photo: PTI)

Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar called in Pakistan’s High Commissioner to India, Abdul Basit, on Tuesday, to present proofs of cross-border origins of the Uri attack.

According to a MEA spokesperson, Jaishankar informed Basit about the two youths who acted as guides for Pakistani infiltrators.

Twenty-year-old Faizal Hussain Awan, who is a resident of Portha Jahangir, Muzzaffarabad in PoK and 19-year-old Khurshid, who is a resident of Khiliana Kalan, Muzzaffarabad in PoK, were apprehended by local villagers at Gawatha in Jammu & Kashmir and nabbed in a joint BSF and Army police custody.

During their interrogation they have disclosed that they were tasked by the JeM Commanders to facilitate infiltration of a group of four JeM cadres who carried out the Uri Army camp attack. On being shown the photographs of the four slain terrorists, the accused Faisal Hussain Awan identified one of them as Hafeez Ahmed son of Feroz, resident of Village Dharbang, Muzaffarabad, of Pakistan occupied Kashmir.

MEA Statement

Basit was also presented with reports of preliminary interrogation, which revealed the identity of one of the slain Uri attackers. The preliminary probe revealed that the attacker, Haifa Ahmed, was a resident of Dharbang, in PoK Muzaffarabad.

Details of the handlers were also shared with Basit.