ISLAMABAD, Dec 23: The army has rejected India’s claim of arresting a Pakistani soldier and two other ‘suicide attackers’.

An army official said Sepoy Ghulam Farid had deserted from Okara on June 6, 2008.

“He is certainly not an army employee and his unit is not deployed on the Line of Control,” he said.

He said the Indians might have arrested Ghulam Farid some time ago and were now staging a drama in view of the current situation.

Earlier on Tuesday, India had claimed that it had arrested three suspected militants who were planning a suicide attack in Occupied Kashmir.

It said that the suspects were members of Jaish-i-Mohammed.

According to Reuters, Indian police said the three militants, one of them a Pakistani soldier, were planning a suicide attack.

“One of the three has been identified as Ghulam Farid alias Gulshan Kumar, a sepoy (soldier) of the Pakistan Army,” Kashmir police director-general Kuldeep Khuda said at a news conference.