India, Aug. 13 -- In a major breakthrough, the Special Task Force (STF) of the West Bengal Police arrested a suspected Pakistani national having connections with the Pakistani intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) from Habra in the North 24-Parganas on Tuesday night. Following a brief interrogation of the Pakistani national identified as Wahab Alam, alias Rana Rauf, the STF arrested a man identified as Md. Izaz, with whom the suspected 'militant' was in frequent contact. According to STF officials, Alam is originally from Faisalabad, Pakistan. In Kolkata, he used to stay in the Topsia area, where he had somehow procured fake identity cards like Aadhaar card, Voter card, etc with the help of Izaz. STF sources informed that Alam was allegedly instructed by his handlers in the ISI to gather and transmit classified tactical data concerning the Indian Army along with other armed forces and the Indian Railways. Also Read - Rahul calls RSS-BJP 'bunch of jokers', scoffs at PM's foreign policy 'based on hugs' Alam had entered India through Nepal in 2012 and has stayed in India since then. However, he used to travel to Kathmandu in Nepal frequently, from where he used to operate. To carry out the assignments given to him, Alam was in need of a documented address in Kolkata. Izaz, a shoemaker who lives in Topsia, helped Alam to obtain fake identity documents. It was also learnt that Izaz used to travel to Kathmandu often as well. Recently, STF was tipped off about Alam and cops were tracking him. On Tuesday, while he was allegedly on his way to the Indo-Bangla border in Bongaon, police intercepted him. "We nabbed Alam while he was on his way to cross over to Bangladesh. He made the plan to flee India after his name was struck off from the voter list during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR)," said an official of the state police STF. The duo was produced in Barasat CJM court and remanded to 14-day police custody for further interrogation into the espionage network.
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