How a Kashmir probe into Jaish posters nearly unmasked Delhi blast plot
On the evening of October 17, Nisar Ahmad Dar, a resident of Nowgam on the outskirts of Srinagar, received a call from the local police station.
The official on the other end of the line told Dar to bring his elder son Arif Nisar Dar, 22, to the police station the next day.
A day before, posters bearing the name of the Pakistan-based militant outfit, Jaish-e-Muhammad, had appeared on some shopfronts in the Nowgam locality of Bunpora.
According to the police, the posters carried “threatening” and “intimidating” messages against the police and security forces. “I handed over my son to the police at Nowgam police station on Saturday, ” October 18, said Nisar Dar, a labour contractor.
Two other young men from Bunpora – 19-year-old Yasir-ul-Ashraf and 25-year-old Maqsood Ahmad Dar – had also been summoned by the police.
Ashraf, who studied till Class 12, ran a copper utensils shop owned by his father near Nowgam police station. Maqsood Dar has a Master’s degree in commerce and worked as an accountant at an iron-and-steel shop in Nowgam.
While Nisar Dar said his son knew both, Yasir and Maqsood’s families denied that they were friends with Arif Dar.
Maqsood Dar’s father Ghulam Mohammad Dar told Scroll that “when someone told him that the police were looking...
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