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| With 10 bodies exhumed, investigators look for grave of 11th Karachi airport attacker |
| 2016-12-10 |
| [DAWN] KARACHI: After exhuming bodies of 10 Lions of Islam who were killed in the June 2014 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... airport from the Edhi Foundation’s graveyard for identification of one of them, the Sherlocks are now looking for their 11th dead aide who, it emerged, was buried in an Orangi Town graveyard after being killed in the assault. The fresh findings came during the course of investigation that not only one of those buried in the Mowach Goth graveyard of the charity organization as unidentified attackers, was a Karachiite, but also another Death Eater named Hisham was with them. "But it emerged that Hisham was not buried in the Mowach Goth graveyard," said a senior officer. "Hisham was also shot in the shootout with the security forces. But somehow, he managed to escape in injured condition and died later or died there but his body was taken away by some of his aides and he was buried in an Orangi Town graveyard." So, he said, efforts were on to determine his grave in that particular graveyard of the densely-populated neighbourhood. He said it was not an easy task to determine the exact grave of the Death Eater with hundreds of such structures in the graveyard. "However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... we are very close to achieving the desired results," he said. "Once the grave of Hisham is determined, we would move in line with the defined laws to exhume the body for samples to conduct DNA matching which would lead to his identity and family links." New facts about the June 2014 attack started unfolding after the recent arrest of two Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... (Naeem Bukhari group) Lions of Islam -- Ishaq alias Bobby and Asim alias Capri. It emerged that at least two of the 10 Lions of Islam were not Central Asian and they belonged to Karachi. During the course of interrogation Ishaq Bobby had told the police Sherlocks that his brother-in-law, Majid, and his friend, Hisham, were killed in the airport attack. For identification of Majid, the health officials under the supervision of a judicial magistrate and police had exhumed 10 bodies of the unidentified attackers on Nov 22 from the Edhi Foundation’s graveyard in Mowach Goth. "It was found that Hisham was also a resident of Orangi Town like Majid and he was buried in his area graveyard," said the officer. "We have traced all other relevant facts and collected all necessary evidence, which are required for his DNA matching. We only need samples of his body and for that we are close to determining his grave in the Orangi Town graveyard." Twenty-six people were killed and 18 others were maimed in the attack on the Haj terminal of Karachi airport on June 8, 2014. The 10 Death Eaters, who were armed with automatic weapons, grenades and a rocket launcher, were later killed in an hours-long shootout with security forces. The outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain had grabbed credit for the deadly attack. "Once the grave is found, the same procedure will be adopted for the identification of Hisham as was done for Majid in the Mowach Goth graveyard," said a health official. "The samples of the clavicle bone, teeth, nails and hair from the body would be collected, which would be initially examined here and then would be sent to Islamabad for final DNA matching that takes a week or so." |
| Posted by:Fred |