According to newspaper, Bihar police sources quoted the terror suspect as saying that Nepal’s tourist city of Pokhara had emerged as his organization’s nerve centre as Kathmandu increasingly came under the glare of international intelligence agencies.[break]
Pokhara is 210km from the spot near Raxaul in Bihar where Yasin was captured on Wednesday night along with aide Asadullah Akhtar and later questioned in Patna before being flown to Delhi today.
The newspaper said that the Indian Mujahideen’s “brains trust” allegedly directs and controls all the organization’s operations in India, including terror attacks, recruitment and the smuggling of fake currency into India from the town.
“That base was shifted to Pokhara, a picturesque town with all modern facilities,” an officer quoted Yasin as saying.
The officer added: “The town is not only a safe hideout for Indian Mujahideen operatives but also for some notorious gangsters from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.”
Senior Bihar police officers who said they were present during Yasin’s questioning claimed the suspect had been in Pokhara for the past month and a half.
“He had left Pakistan after the Nawaz Sharif government came to power. He came to Nepal, travelled to Bangladesh, then returned to Nepal and decided to stay in Pokhara,” a senior officer said.
Yasin has allegedly told interrogators that Indian Mujahideen operatives sneak into India from Nepal through Sunauli in eastern Uttar Pradesh (close to Gorakhpur district) and Raxaul in Bihar.
“Since the border is porous and visas are not required, Indian Mujahideen operatives frequently visit Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. The two border towns of Raxaul and Sunauli are connected by road and railway, which helps,” an officer said.
Two laptops, five mobile phones, three SIM cards of Nepal-based telecom companies, two fake Uttar Pradesh voter identity cards, and a fake driving licence have been seized from Yasin and Akhtar.
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