Pak-based terrorist outfit was planning strike in Goa Sify.com PTI Saturday, 11 March, 2006, 10:57
Panaji: Interrogation of a terrorist, who was arrested in Goa on Friday night, has revealed a Pakistan-based militant outfit's plans to strike at busy tourist places in the state, police sources said on Saturday. During his night-long interrogation, Tariq Anwar, who was arrested with explosives and firearms from Margao railway station, confessed that Pakistan-based Tariq-ul-Mujahid militant outfit, to which he belongs to, "was targeting busy tourist places in the state to execute a Bali-like explosion", sources said. Anwar was arrested while he was alighting from Ernakulam (Kerala)-bound Matsyagandha Express train at Margao, 30 km away from Panaji. Police have recovered 2 kg of RDX, two hand grenades and other explosives from him, sources said. During the preliminary interrogation, he also said that he was trained for two-and-a-half-years in the Pakistani militant camp. "He was frequenting Goa for last six months and staying in a flat near Margao city," sources said. However, the sources revealed that "Tariq was just a carrier of explosives". "The executor of the proposed-havoc was yet to arrive in the state," they said. ~(^^)~ Avelino