New Delhi: A Pakistani, believed to be the father of the terrorist nabbed Wednesday near Udhampur, on Thursday said that Lashar-e-Taiba probably wanted his son dead and not caught alive and he himself feared for his life now.
"I'll be killed. The Lashkar is after us and the fauj (army) is after us," Mohammad Yaqub told Hindustan Times in chaste Punjabi when contacted on a phone number given to the interrogators by Mohammad Naved, who was captured alive by villagers after the attack on a BSF convoy near Udhampur.'
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Identifying himself as the "unfortunate father" of the attacker, Mohammad Yakub said, "You are calling from India. We'll be killed."
Sounding flustered, Mohammad Yaqub said, "The Lashkar is after us. They probably wanted him dead and not caught alive. Please spare him."
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The call was made at 1.22 pm and lasted a minute and 20 seconds before a frightened Yakub hung up. The phone has been switched off since then, the daily said.
Pakistani journalists were reportedly stopped from going to towards Ghulam Mohammadabad locality in Faisalabad, an address provided by Naved, the paper said.
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Earlier, Pakistan rejected India's assertion that a LeT terrorist captured alive after a terror attack in Udhampur yesterday was of Pakistani-origin and asked India to refrain from making "accusations".
"We have also seen media reports and I will not offer any comment on that issue. We expect the Indian authorities to share information with us on the claims that are being made in the media," Pakistan Foreign Office Spokesperson Syed Qazi Khalilullah said on the arrest of the terrorist in India.
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"We have said many a times that making immediate accusations on Pakistan is not correct. These things should be based on facts. We expect that whenever Pakistan is being accused of something, it will be accompanied with correct evidence," he said.
Khalilullah said that the Indian claim was baseless. "We have repeatedly asked India to refrain from accusations."
