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AQIS involvement feared in North Nazimabad gun and grenade attacks
[DAWN] While law-enforcement agencies picked up 15 suspects in connection with the Friday grenade and gun attacks in North Nazimabad, a bigwig of the Counter-Terrorism Department on Saturday believed that the attacks were the handiwork of snuffies of Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS).On Friday, two men riding a cycle of violence first threw a grenade at the North Nazimabad Police Complex that also houses the Taimuria cop shoppe and then fired at personnel of traffic police at the Five Star traffic intersection, killing a rickshaw driver. Police and paramilitary Rangers launched a joint combing operation in North Nazimabad and took into custody 15 criminals involved in "terrorist activities", said a Rangers spokesperson in a statement on Saturday. The held suspects were handed over to the police for further legal action, he added. Officials said they were pursuing all angles to identify the assailants and the possible motive behind the two attacks. "The modus operandi appears to be of banned jihadi outfits as they had been involved in similar acts of terrorism in the same vicinity of North Nazimabad and other localities," said CTD official Raja Umer Khattab. He suspected the involvement of banned AQIS in both the incidents. He believed that the AQIS network in the city had been weakened following the April 2016 arrests of their members who were involved in some improvised bomb (IED) attacks on law-enforcement agencies in the metropolis. Since the Taimuria cop shoppe came under grenade attack, it indicated that the banned krazed killer outfit now lacked IED-making expertise, he added. Regarding their possible motive, the CTD official said that the snuffies wanted to make their presence felt in the city. Regarding the assassination'>assassination of Sub-Inspector Iqbal Mehmood, who was bumped off on Wednesday night on main Rashid Minhas Road, he said that Sherlocks had ruled out the involvement of any banned krazed killer outfits in the killing. He said that the Sherlocks were looking into the cases on which the slain officer was working and some progress was made in ascertaining the identity and motive of the killers. Posted by: Fred 2017-01-09 |
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