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leT wanted Naved dead, not caught alive: Father

IANS

 A Pakistan-based man who identified himself as the “unfortunate father” of the Pakistani terrorist nabbed in Udhampur has said that the lashkar-e-Tayyeba (leT) wanted his son dead, not caught alive and that his own life is in danger.

Speaking to the Hindustan Times daily over phone, the “father”, who identified himself as Mohammad Yakub said: “I’ll be killed. The lashkar is after us and the fauj is after us..” The daily contacted him on a phone number disclosed to interrogators by the arrested gunman Usman alias Mohammad Naved, who is said to hail from Faisalabad city of Pakistan’s Punjab province.