In a major revelation which is likely to strengthen India's claim against Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed during the NSA-level talks with Pakistan, the arrested Pakistan terrorist Naved has confessed to his interrogators that the 26/11 attacks mastermind visited the Lashkar-e-Taiba camp twice while he was undergoing training there.

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During the interrogation following a lie-detector test, Naved told the National Investigation Agency (NIA) interrogators that Hafiz Saeed delivered motivational speeches to the recruits and exhorted them to kill Hindus in India.



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Naved, who was trained with other 25 others in the camp, told that besides physical training, all the recruits were shown videos about 'military oppression' against Kashmiris. Apart from Pakistanis, there were Afghan and Pashtoon youths in the training camps, he said.

According to Naved, who was captured alive after the Udhampur attack on August 5, Hafiz gave two motivational speeches to call for jihad against India. Naved was nabbed by villagers after he ambushed a BSF convoy in Udhampur along with an associate, he had killed two troopers and injured 11 others in the attack.

Naved, who is in his early 20s and hails from Faisalabad in Pakistan, is said to be the odd one in a typical middle-class family. His elder brother and brother-in-law are reportedly both college lecturers. Investigators said, Naved studied only till Class 5 and was heavily into gambling.

