Darbhanga blast suspect Nasir Malik went to Pakistan thrice to met his handler

The parcel bomb was designed to explode on the train between Kazipet and Ramagundam railway stations in Telangana

The mastermind behind parcel bomb explosion in Bihar’s Darbhanga Railway Station appears to have established a credible line of contact with the operatives of Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI. Nasir Malik, one of two brothers detained by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Hyderabad recently, is said to have made the chemical explosive by taking on online bomb-making instructions from his IS handler Iqbal Khana alias Asif Khana of Pakistan. The suspect, who is in his forties, migrated to Hyderabad nearly two decades ago from Kairana in Shamli district of Uttar Pradesh, and was into readymade clothes business at Habeeb Nagar. While his brother Imran Malik (35) came to the city last year. Their handler Khana, also the native of Kairana and a most wanted terrorist in the country, was taking shelter in Pakistan. He was in touch with the Malik brothers, Haji Saleem and Khafeel, and other IS sympathisers from his place and was also involved in counterfeit currency cases in India.