Former Pak army captain-turned-militant caught in J&K?
According to an unconfirmed report, the Jammu and Kashmir police have arrested Shahzad Khan, a militant commander, near border districts in valley. Shahzad Khan was reportedly a Captain in Pakistan Army and served Pakistan as Second Lieutenant in Kargil war. This has happened for the first time in 18 years of militancy in state that the J&K police have detained a former Pakistani army officer. Now, the report says that the police have kept Khan in a secret location in Kashmir.
On the other hand, the top police officers in state police department have rejected the report of any detention of former Pakistani army officer-turned-militant in the state. At the same time, the Indian Express has reported that the J&K police have arrested a former Pak Army officer from Batapora locality and the continuous interrogation on him is going on in police custody.
The report says further that Khan was active in the Kargil fight in 1999 from Pakistani Army as a Second Lieutenant. He has some links with a very influential, political family from the Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir. The police have found that he has also some links with Lt-General Mohammad Aziz, who is a right hand person of General Pervez Musharraf. Musharraf was actively involved in the Kargil war as the then Chief of General Staff in Pakistan army.
As the authenticity of this claim has not been confirmed yet but this has been said on several occasions that he was active in border areas such as Kupwara, Baramulla and Bandipore districts since 2001.