Watch: I was told to take revenge on Indians, says captured Udhampur terrorist Naved aka Usman

The roughest days of his life might be ahead of him but the only terrorist captured alive after the attack on a Border Security Force (BSF) convoy on the Jammu-Srinagar highway in Udhampur on Wednesday seemed to be completely calm and was even smiling in a video showing him right after he was captured.

In the chilling video, the captured terrorist Usman, whose real name - according to TV reports - is Mohammad Naved, calmly told people around him about his journey up until he was captured. “It’s been 12 days since I came to India…I walked most of the way from the border to where I was captured,” Usman said in the video.

As the people surrounding Usman started making angry remarks, Usman even said, “Gaali mat do. (Don’t abuse me).”

Usman is also heard saying, “Kashmiriyon ko maara jaata hai (Kashmiris are being killed).”

“I was told to take revenge on Indians,” CNN-IBN quoted the attacker as saying.

A resident of Ghulam Mustafabad (Faisalabad) in Pakistan, Naved, believed to be in early 20s, has two brothers and one sister. One of them is a lecturer while the other runs a hosiery business.

During questioning at a joint interrogation centre in Jammu region, he said he had initially made an attempt to enter the Kashmir Valley a month ago but had to return as their guide had not turned up to receive them, official sources said.

Naved identified the fellow terrorist killed on Wednesday in the retaliatory fire by BSF as Noman alias Momin, who hailed from Bhawalpur in Pakistan.

The duo carried out an attack on a BSF convoy at Simroli near Udhampur killing two constables. In the gun fight, Noman was killed while he managed to escape before being nabbed by the Village Defence Committee members, they said.

(With inputs from PTI)