HUJI and LET operative Khaja has Pakistan passport

Udumula Sudhakar Reddy
The city police has booked a separate case for violation of the Passport Act against Shaik Abdul Khaja, an operative of the Lashkare-Tayyaba and Harkat-UlJihad-Al-Islami (HuJI).
Khaja was arrested recently by the special investigation team in connection with the task force suicide bombing and was produced in the Nampally criminal court on Monday after his remand period ended.
Investigators who seized a Pakistani passport and ID card from him said that his links with the ISI were confirmed.
Police said that Khaja had conducted reconnaissance at Ahmedabad to kill the Guarat assistant commissioner of police, Mr Narendra Ameen, after the Gujarat police killed Mujaheed Salim while arresting Moulana Naseeruddin.
He also revealed to the police that he had been in touch with 20 youth from Hyderabad who are part of a terror network spread over Karachi, Dubai and Riyadh.
Police said that in June 2006 Khaja alias Ghore Bhai, a native of Malakpet, obtained a Pakistani passport illegally. He travelled to Dubai, Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia using it. Khaja was in regular touch with ISI agents with the mediation of Rasool Khan Patty, a key LeT operative.
"He was was trained in terror camps in Pakistan occupied Kashmir and in the LeT headquarters in Muridke," said a police source.
Meanwhile teams of the Kolkata police and the National Investigation Agency are arriving in the city to take Khaja into their custody on prisoner transit warrant for his connection with fake currency rackets.
Police sources said he also confessed to have met Riyaz Bhatkal and Iqbal Bhatkal in Karachi after the blasts triggered by the Indian Mujahideen.
However, Khaja told mediapersons at the court premises that he was not involved in any blasts. "It is all a creation of the police," he said.