Dhaka, Sep 2 - Islamist militants fighting in Jammu and Kashmir have regularly used Bangladesh as a transit point to travel to Pakistan, an Indian militant nabbed by the police has said.

Safe havens have been built in Bangladesh to shelter and train militants for terrorist operations in the South Asian region, detained Indian terrorist Mufti Obaidullah, a top leader of the India-based Asif Reza Commando Force (ARCF) has revealed.

His interrogation statement has been obtained by The Daily Star newspaper that published details Wednesday.

ARCF works as an associate of the Pakistan-based international terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).

Maulana Obaidullah, working undercover as a madrassa teacher for the last 14 years, was nabbed along with another alleged Indian operative, Maulana Mansoor Ali, two months ago.

Obaidullah said that Pakistani militants crossed the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir to enter India to run terror operations.

They then crossed the Indian border into Bangladesh to fly back to Pakistan.

'As it was tough to cross back to Pakistan through the India-Pakistan border, the Mujahideen would cross to Bangladesh and then leave for their destinations using fake passports and visas,' Obaidullah's statement said.

His student Selim and a close associate Jalal helped him.

The detained Indian militant also said that he built a safe-home in Habiganj in 2002 to shelter fugitive terrorists, and recruit and train Bangladeshis to take part in terror attacks.