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AQIS ‘high-profile militant’ held in Karachi
[DAWN] A ’high-profile’ bully boy linked with the banned Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) has been apprehended in Bloody Karachi...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , it emerged on Monday. A security official who wished not to be named told Dawn that Umar Jalal Chandio alias Kathio was detained from Gulshan-e-Iqbal recently. Jalal hailed from Mirpurkhas. He shifted to Kotri where he remained neighbour of Tahir Minhas alias Sain. Minhas was one of the main accused in the Safoora bus carnage in which over 47 members of the Shia Ismaili community were rubbed out in 2015. Minhas along with other holy warriors was placed in durance vile Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! in 2015 by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD). A joint investigation team (JIT) in its report on the Safoora carnage revealed that Jalal was appointed AQIS’s local emir after the arrest of previous AQIS’s chief Abdul Rehman in 2001 in Karachi. According to JIT, when Minhas was associated with AQIS, Jalal Chandio asked him to move to Karachi. During a presser in 2015, Raja Umar Khattab of the CTD had stated: "Jalal was associated with Al Qaeda’s Arab network while Haji Sahib (code name) was active in Karachi and the Wadh area of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... where the group’s mainly Baloch youths were involved in kidnapping for ransom, terrorism and attacks on NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... forces’ containers." Sources told Dawn that Jalal’s wife was also a high-profile activist of AQIS. Posted by: Fred 2018-11-20 |
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