Jaish-e-Mohammed area commander arrested

NEW DELHI: Khursheed Ahmed Butt, the area commander and finance chief of Jaish-e-Mohammed in Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir was arrested by a Delhi Police special cell team from J & K. Butt was labelled as a B-category militant by the J & K government, who had also declared a reward of Rs 1 lakh on his arrest.
He is allegedly involved in about half-a-dozen deadly attacks on armed forces in the valley, including the case in Patan this year, where a car laden with explosives was detonated in front of an army convoy.He, along with some others, also killed a man and his son in 2002 as they were suspected to be informers for the Indian Armed forces.
In 2003, he apparently killed a security personnel while trying to evade arrest during a raid. Last year, his family was apparently pressurising him into surrendering before the police and gave them leads on his whereabouts. When the BSF team reached him, he apparently threw a hand grenade at them.
He later killed his sister and another neighbour, who tipped-off the police. The son of a Kashmir Armed Police officer, he was born in 1986 in Mohalla Gonna Kochha and attended a madrasa for primary education. In 2001, he dropped out of studies and came into contact with two Jaish militants Kamran and Safdar, who initiated him into terrorism.
He went to a training camp run by Gazi Baba, who was allegedly instrumental in the attack on the Indian Parliament in December 2001, and was trained to use hand grenades, pistols, AK rifles and Improvised Explosive Devices.
According to the police, he attacked a BSF camp in Kahleen and was nominated as the area commander of Jaish for Pulwama and its finance head for the entire valley.