Police have arrested five Afghans with suspected links to the Taliban in a raid in Quetta, officials said on Thursday. The five men were seized late on Wednesday in a hotel in central Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province, which borders Afghanistan, police official Qazi Abdul Wahid said. “They appeared to be affiliates of the Taliban and we are interrogating the suspects about their links,” Wahid said, adding that the arrests were made on a tip-off. The Afghans arrived in Pakistan few days ago and did not have valid travelling documents, he said. | These are either the Taliban leaders discussed in the other stories (dates are different) or possibly fallout from those arrests |
Separately, police arrested a suspected member of an outlawed militant group and seized seven kilogrammes of explosives in a raid in Hyderabad, about 150 kilometres northeast of Karachi, an official said on Thursday. Azimud Din, 26, a suspected member of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ), was arrested from a home in Sarfaraz Colony neighbourhood in Hyderabad on Wednesday night, said Khalid Korai, a police officer in the city. Police found the explosives in DinÂ’s home and will investigate if he planned any terrorist attack, Korai said. Din was arrested following information from three other alleged Lashkar-e-Jhangvi members who were arrested in Hyderabad last month, Korai said.
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a militant group, was outlawed by the government in 2001 over allegations that it was involved in sectarian killings. The group is also suspected of links with Al Qaeda. |