<p>While blaming the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Muhammad terror outfit for the 2016 Nagrota army camp fidayeen (suicide) attack, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday said it has arrested a resident of Kupwara in north Kashmir, for reportedly facilitating the attack.</p>.<p>Quoting Inspector General (NIA) Alok Mittal, local media reported that the agency on Saturday arrested Syed Muneer-ul-Hassan Qadri, a resident of Hurhama, Lolab, in Kupwara during its investigation.</p>.<p>"The Jammu and Kashmir Police played a key role in the arrest of the accused," he said. "Preliminary interrogation of the accused revealed that the attack was carried out by the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) in furtherance of a well-planned conspiracy from Pakistan."</p>.<p>Seven soldiers, including two officers and three unidentified militants, were killed after terrorists had stormed an army installation in Nagrota on the outskirts of Jammu city on November 29, 2016.</p>.<p>On December 7 in the same year, the premier anti-terror probe agency had started the probe into the deadly terror attack.</p>.<p>Mittal said the accused has revealed that he, along with other Kashmir-based JeM operatives, were in touch with the JeM leadership in Pakistan.</p>.<p>"He has admitted to having received a freshly infiltrated group of three Pakistani militants from the Samba sector a day before the attack," he said.</p>.<p>"They subsequently stayed at a hotel in Jammu and then left the attackers at Nagrota outside the army camp late at night and proceeded to the Kashmir valley," Mittal said.</p>.<p>Since September 2013, the fidayeen have again started hitting the defence establishments and other government buildings in Jammu and Kashmir, a trend similar to 1999-2002.</p>.<p>Jaish was instrumental in carrying the fidayeen phase of attacks in Kashmir from early to mid last decade.</p>.<p>Advocating the idea of pan-Islamism, Jaish was founded by 49-year-old Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000 after he was released in exchange for passengers of an Indian Airlines.</p>.<p>Less than two and half months before the fidayeen attack at the Parliament on December 13, 2001, another extremely deadly attack, on the Jammu and Kashmir State Legislative Assembly, using a car bomb on October 1, 2001, was the handiwork of Jaish.</p>.<p>More than 40 people were killed and many more injured in that incident.</p>
<p>While blaming the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Muhammad terror outfit for the 2016 Nagrota army camp fidayeen (suicide) attack, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday said it has arrested a resident of Kupwara in north Kashmir, for reportedly facilitating the attack.</p>.<p>Quoting Inspector General (NIA) Alok Mittal, local media reported that the agency on Saturday arrested Syed Muneer-ul-Hassan Qadri, a resident of Hurhama, Lolab, in Kupwara during its investigation.</p>.<p>"The Jammu and Kashmir Police played a key role in the arrest of the accused," he said. "Preliminary interrogation of the accused revealed that the attack was carried out by the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) in furtherance of a well-planned conspiracy from Pakistan."</p>.<p>Seven soldiers, including two officers and three unidentified militants, were killed after terrorists had stormed an army installation in Nagrota on the outskirts of Jammu city on November 29, 2016.</p>.<p>On December 7 in the same year, the premier anti-terror probe agency had started the probe into the deadly terror attack.</p>.<p>Mittal said the accused has revealed that he, along with other Kashmir-based JeM operatives, were in touch with the JeM leadership in Pakistan.</p>.<p>"He has admitted to having received a freshly infiltrated group of three Pakistani militants from the Samba sector a day before the attack," he said.</p>.<p>"They subsequently stayed at a hotel in Jammu and then left the attackers at Nagrota outside the army camp late at night and proceeded to the Kashmir valley," Mittal said.</p>.<p>Since September 2013, the fidayeen have again started hitting the defence establishments and other government buildings in Jammu and Kashmir, a trend similar to 1999-2002.</p>.<p>Jaish was instrumental in carrying the fidayeen phase of attacks in Kashmir from early to mid last decade.</p>.<p>Advocating the idea of pan-Islamism, Jaish was founded by 49-year-old Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000 after he was released in exchange for passengers of an Indian Airlines.</p>.<p>Less than two and half months before the fidayeen attack at the Parliament on December 13, 2001, another extremely deadly attack, on the Jammu and Kashmir State Legislative Assembly, using a car bomb on October 1, 2001, was the handiwork of Jaish.</p>.<p>More than 40 people were killed and many more injured in that incident.</p>
