The Punjab Police on Thursday foiled a major attempt to smuggle weapons into the Valley for carrying out terror attacks, with the arrest of two J&K-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) operatives.
Ten hand grenades, along with one AK-47 rifle with 2 magazines and 60 live cartridges, were seized from the suspected militants, identified as Aamir Hussain Wani (26) of Shopian, and Wasim Hassan Wani (27) also from Shopian district.
The duo, actively involved in transporting automatic weapons and hand grenades from Punjab to the Kashmir Valley, were nabbed by the Pathankot police, who intercepted a truck (JK-03-C-7383) at a naka on the Amritsar-Jammu highway.
Aamir Hussain Wani has revealed that, on his earlier trips to Punjab in his truck, he had collected more than Rs 20 lakh of hawala money at the behest of his handlers — Ishfaq Ahmed Dar and Rameez Raja, who is currently lodged in a jail in J&K for his involvement in terror activities.
