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| ‘Ring leader of TTP killers’ held in Quetta |
| 2018-04-05 |
[DAWN] Law enforcement agencies have tossed in the slammerMaw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! the leader of a gang of hitmen belonging to the Tehrik-e-Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Pakistain (TTP), who were involved in the killing of 16 coppers over the last three months in the city, and raids are being conducted to arrest other members of the gang. This was disclosed by 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... Chief Minister Mir Abdul Quddus Bizenjo at a presser here on Tuesday after presiding over a meeting on the law and order situation in the province. Provincial Home Minister Mir Sarfaraz Ahmed Bugti accompanied the chief minister. "Fazal Haq Ghaibzai, the ring leader of the TTP button mans'>button men, was arrested during a joint operation by police, the Counter Terrorism Department and the Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations.... on Tuesday night on the basis of intelligence information," Mr Bizenjo said. He said Ghaibzai had confessed during interrogation that he and five members of his gang had killed some senior coppers and FC personnel in different areas of Quetta. The chief minister said Ghaibzai was a resident of Quetta and his father was a prayer leader at the mosque of a local school. Sarfaraz Bugti said Ghaibzai had told interrogators that Raziq Achakzai, an Afghan commander who ran terrorism training camps in Spin Buldak, had provided money to his gang. "Ghaibzai said Asim Muhammad Hasni, one of his accomplices, used his wife in different terrorist acts and for hiding weapons. He said Pir Ain-uz-Zaman is emir of the TTP Balochistan and the killers’ gang was formed on his order," Mr Bugti added. He said security forces had found a lead about the suicide kaboom on a Quetta church in December last year and recovered the wireless set that had been in use of traffic sergeant Hafiz Niazi who was killed on Iqbal Road in Quetta. Mr Bugti said that during the last two months there were threats of suicide attacks in Quetta and other areas of Balochistan, but security forces had foiled over a dozen such attempts and arrested several suspects. A video of the suspected terrorist was shown to the media in which he said the TTP Balochistan emir’s associates, including his deputy, were based in Spin Boldak. |
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