Attack preparation in the works for 3 yrs

NABI AND HIS TWO FELLOW DOCTORS WERE IN TOUCH WITH ONE ABU AQASHA, AND MET TWOISLAMISTS IN TURKEY IN 2002

- Shishir Gupta

Interrogation of the accomplices of Red Fort suicide bomber Dr Umar un-Nabi has revealed that the Pulwama-Faridabad self-radicalised Islamist terror module was meticulously planning an attack in India for at least three years.

HT learns that Nabi along with fellow doctors Muzamil Shakeel and Adeel Ahmad Rather were in touch with aman named Abu Aqasha through Telegram and met two Islamists— identified only as Mohammed and Omar—in Turkey in 2022. While the three names appear to be generic for Islamists, people familiar with the investigation confirm that the three Pulwama doctors wanted to go to Afghanistan in pursuit of their imagined sense of Muslim victimhood and to support pan-Islamic causes. The exercise is now on to identify the three Islamists behind the generic names, the people add.