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Verify Al-Qaeda claims, J&K Government told

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Police asked to make voice tests of phone message

NEW DELHI: The Centre on Friday asked the Jammu and Kashmir Government to check the veracity of reports that the international terror network Al-Qaeda has set up its unit in the State.

Home Ministry sources said that the Jammu and Kashmir police have been asked to do the voice test of the recorded phone message to a local news agency from a man who had identified himself as the head of the Indian network of Al-Qaeda. Police have also taken into custody the owner of the STD booth in downtown Srinagar from where the call was made and was interrogating him, sources said.

The probe into the five grenade attacks in Srinagar on July 11, in which nine people were killed and 32 injured, is in progress. Mohammad Afzal, who was caught by people while throwing a grenade opposite the Tourist Reception Centre and handed over to the police, is being interrogated. This and subsequent operations have led to the arrest of four more militants hailing from North Kashmir. Afzal revealed that a person named Mudassir, a Lashkar-e-Taiba operative, was organising these attacks under the overall supervision of Bilal, a Lashkar commander.

Home Ministry sources said that during this year, 301 terrorists have been killed so far by security forces in Jammu and Kashmir.

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