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Sources added that this is the first time in at least a decade that Kashmiri students have been arrested with explosives and weapons in Punjab. JALANDHAR: Three Kashmiri students were arrested from an educational institute on the outskirts of Jalandhar on Wednesday morning, allegedly with weapons, including an assault rifle and explosives. He was arrested along with Mohammed Idriss Shah alias Nadeem and Yusuf Rafiq Bhatt, both of whom are residents of Pulwama ‘Pak ISI expanding arc of militancy’This is the second arrest in a week of young Kashmiri men with alleged terror links in Punjab. The students have been booked under various sections of the Arms Act, Explosive Act and Unlawful Activities Prevention Act in a case registered at Jalandhar’s Sadar police station. They were arrested in a joint operation by the Punjab police and special operations group (SoG) of Jammu and Kashmir Police.Punjab DGP Suresh Arora said that the three were part of a module of the Kashmiri terror outfit, Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind (AGH) and were nabbed from the hostel of CT Institute of Engineering Management and Technology at Shahpur village..