Pakistani couple, handler held in Raxaul

A couple from Pakistan and their Indian handler have been arrested from near Raxaul town on India-Nepal border on the charge of entering the country without valid travel documents.
East Champaran Superintendent of Police Jitendra Rana today said the couple, Parsezada Jahangir and his wife Wasam Hamid, hails from Islamabad and the man had been to a terrorist group's training camp in the Pakistan capital.
The couple was arrested yesterday after the autorickshaw they were travelling in was stopped by the police for routine check of visitors from Nepal at Raxaul town and they failed to produce valid travel documents.

A person named Mohd Zasim, a native of Bihar's Muzaffarpur district, who was travelling with the couple has also been arrested for facilitating the Pakistani couple to travel to India without valid documents from Nepal where he now lives, Rana said.
The police seized Rs 15,000 cash in Nepali currency, Rs 3,370 in Pakistani currency, besides three mobile phones and foreign-made clothes from the Pakistani couple, the SP said.
During interrogation, Jahangir told police that he and his wife were natives of Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK) from where he had gone to Islamabad and settled down there.

From Islamabad, the couple had travelled to Thailand from where they had landed at Kathmandu by a flight and wanted to go to Delhi via Raxaul.

Jahangir also confessed to the intelligence officials that he had been taken to a terrorist group's training camp in Islamabad around 1988-89, he said.
The couple was being investigated in detail to find out more details about their background and activities, Rana added.