Pakistani intelligence agencies have captured a top Pakistani militant, Qari Saifullah Akhtar from Dubai, sources told Daily Times on Saturday. Qari Saifullah, the head of Harkat Jihad-e-Islami Al Alami is believed to be a close aide of Osama Bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar. He was the operational head of Al Qaeda in Pakistan and the suspected mastermind of the recent attacks on President General Pervez Musharraf, Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz and the Karachi corps commander. According to sources, the government had asked the United Arab Emirates for his arrest. Pakistan learnt about Qari Saifullah's whereabouts from a militant they recently arrested in Karachi. "Qari Saifullah was picked up on Friday night in Dubai and brought to Pakistan on Saturday morning," said the sources. "His arrest will help Pakistan break the terrorist network," said a security official.
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| Unlike Humpty Dumpty, it keeps getting put back together. |
Amjad Hussain Farooqui, another militant said to be involved in the attacks on General Musharraf and other government officials, was acting under orders from Qari Saifullah, sources said. Back in 1995 Qari Saifullah had been arrested for his involvement in the Major General Zaheer Abbasi conspiracy case. However, Saifullah was said to be with Mullah Omer when the US forces invaded Afghanistan.
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He escaped from Kandahar and went to Saudi Arabia.
However, he did not stay there for long and took shelter in Dubai from where he was captured. "Maulana Fazlur Rehman Khalil, head of the banned militant organisation, Jamiatul Ansar was also picked up in Islamabad on Friday night. Sources have told Daily Times that more jihadi leaders will also be picked up in the next 24 hours.
Security agencies took Qari Saifullah into custody to gather information about militants who have worked in his organisation. "Security agencies believe that most militants involved in terrorism in Pakistan have worked in his organisation," sources said. His detention would help law-enforcement agencies gather information about militants who had worked under his command before they established Harkat-ul-Mujahidin Al Alami, which was involved in the car bombing outside the US consulate in Karachi.
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