Two Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants from Jammu and Kashmir who received terrorist training in Pakistan were arrested on Friday at the Wagah-Attari border.

The militants, identified as Abdul Majeed Bhat and Mohammad Ashraf Mir and residents of Baramulla district, had returned to India via the Wagah-Attari border crossing in Punjab with valid passports and visas, police said on Friday.

"They had obtained passports specifically for the said purpose. These militants of the LeT were nabbed immediately after returning via Wagah-Attari border before they could formally join the militant ranks here in Kashmir," a police officer said.

The two Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants arrested at the Wagah-Attari border. File photo

According to police, the duo, on questioning, revealed that they had undergone terrorist training in Pakistan along with large number of Pakistani boys, most of them from its restive Balochistan province and some as 10 years old.

"The said terrorist camps are located near Burma Town, Islamabad and are being run by a terrorist commander operating under code name Hanzala Adanan and Omar. Other terrorists imparting training to young boys are operating with code names Osama, Naveed and Hataf," said the officer, adding that the arrested militants have been given visas by the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi.

Police also said that in the past couple of years, they have unearthed several such modules who lure young boys to Pakistan to get trained and join militancy. Several of these youth have been arrested and some of them killed in gunfights.

Last year, two militants namely Azharuddin and Sajad Ahmad, who had gone to Pakistan on valid visas to obtain terror training, subsequently joined militancy here and got killed.

Suhaib Farooq Akhoon of Baramulla also visited Pakistan in August last year, who, after acquiring terrorist training in LeT terrorist camp, went underground and joined militant ranks.

"Parents are requested to keep watch on their wards and their prolonged absence from home should be immediately reported to police so that lives of these boys are saved," the officer added.

(With inputs from IANS and Brajesh Kumar Madhukar)

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