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Chapters (65)
  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Authors’ Note
  5. 1. ‘IF ANYONE MOVES, FIRE MAARO’
  6. 2. DAWN ABDUCTION
  7. 3. WAITING GAME
  8. 4. ‘BREAKING’ SALIM
  9. 5. THE CONFESSION
  10. 6. AN ENCOUNTER
  11. 7. ‘LEADER IS IN INDIA ALREADY’
  12. 8. BABAJI’S MAN WITH NO EXIT PLAN
  13. 9. ‘MAN OF RESPECT’ IN HYDERABAD
  14. 10. TRACKING SALIM
  15. 11. HOLDING BACK
  16. 12. WHAT IS SALIM HIDING?
  17. 13. POULTRY FARM YIELDS 143 CHICKENS, 380 EGGS, 2 PAKISTANI ‘GUESTS’
  18. 14. A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH
  19. 15. OPERATION TROJAN HORSE
  20. 16. THE YOUNG DRONE-MAKER
  21. 17. AN AMBUSH
  22. 18. MURDER AND RETRIBUTION
  23. 19. NEW RECRUITS
  24. 20. BUNGALOW NUMBER 105
  25. 21. A STEP INTO THE PAST
  26. 22. TRAINING
  27. 23. GIVING INDIA A ‘THOUSAND CUTS’
  28. 24. THE GAME BEGINS
  29. 25. SHOOT TO KILL
  30. 26. KRAV MAGA, KALI AND TRACKING SKILLS
  31. 27. THE MIND OF NAWAZ
  32. 28. KEY CONCEPTS
  33. 29. THE SACRIFICE
  34. 30. ‘ONCE IS A COINCIDENCE, TWICE IS ENEMY ACTION’
  35. 31. FIRST CONTACT WITH THE ENEMY
  36. 32. BREAKTHROUGH IN KISHANGANJ
  37. 33. ROAD TO THAMEL
  38. 34. THE EAGLES ARE FLYING
  39. 35. KARACHI APPOINTMENT WITH LeT BOSSES
  40. 36. DAWN AT BAYT AL-MUJAHIDEEN
  41. 37. RPGs AND DUCKING LIVE BULLETS
  42. 38. SAFFRON MILK AND A GAME OF CHESS
  43. 39. RETURN TO INDIA
  44. 40. THE FIRST ASSIGNMENT
  45. 41. LOOKING FOR ATIF
  46. 42. TERROR ON A PLATE
  47. 43. MURDER IN THE DARK
  48. 44. RING THE BELLS
  49. 45. THE TOAST OF LeT
  50. 46. BACK TO THE DEN
  51. 47. ‘YOU COULD KILL JUST TWO, BABAR?’
  52. 48. FIRST TARGET
  53. 49. DEHRADUN
  54. 50. TIME FOR REVENGE
  55. 51. TERROR AT BVP HEADQUARTERS
  56. 52. KARACHI IN MOURNING
  57. 53. GUNNING FOR THE CM
  58. 54. A SUMMONS TO KARACHI
  59. 55. A SERIES OF BOMBINGS
  60. 56. BREACHING THE BASTION
  61. 57. THE LAST HURRAH
  62. 58. ATTACKING THE CRPF CITADEL
  63. 59. A PROMOTION
  64. 60. THE NIGHT OF 26/11
  65. About the Authors

The commander lived in Hyderabad and ran an automobile business as a cover. Furqan said that Salim had been sent to Delhi by Al-Cheema to set up a PCO unit in Old Delhi, but it had turned out to be a failure. He had then moved out of Delhi and had eventually ended up in Hyderabad. Salim was a respected man in his locality, with a flourishing business. Recognized as a community notable with a following amongst the local youth, he taught kids science and Arabic for free at the madrasa attached to the mosque in Hyderabad’s Rukhsar Ganj colony. His father-in-law was a retired army man and served as an imam on an honorary basis.

According to Furqan, Salim was passionate about world affairs and especially about what happened to the ummah, the community.

‘Salim has two daughters and a good wife,’ Furqan rattled off the details, wanting to end the ordeal of the ceaseless interrogation that he was being subjected to.

Furqan had revealed what the CTC had been looking for since the Khemkaran encounter, when Ashraf had first mentioned the missing ‘PCO Man’, the man sent by Al-Cheema as a resident terrorist to India. Based on Furqan’s information, Shekhar and the CTC had been able to find Salim after all. The lucky break had finally come, as Agyeya had said it would. Shekhar smiled.

10. TRACKING SALIM

10

TRACKING SALIM

No time was lost in shadowing the PCO Man, Salim Khwaja Amjad. He could be the critical lead that the CTC needed to find out what the LeT was planning in Hyderabad and identify its sleeper cells across India.

Watchers were deployed around Salim’s home at Rukhsar Ganj. From the time he stepped out of his house in the morning till the time he returned at night, Salim was under the discreet gaze of the CTC watchers.

On day one of the surveillance, Salim was sighted outside his house at 6.03 a.m., wearing a black tracksuit and white T-shirt, carrying one of his daughters on his shoulders and a water sprinkler in his left hand. He watered the bed of roses and the chameli, then plucked one of the roses for his daughter, who took it excitedly. He picked up the newspapers that were lying near the door before going inside the house.

At 6.30 a.m. Salim was seen again, this time in a white Pathani suit and skullcap. He walked briskly out of the house with his father-in-law in tow. The duo entered the mosque compound. The muezzin gave a call to the faithful for the morning prayers. Salim and his father-in-law came out of the mosque at 7.30 a.m. and returned home.