 The Anti-Terrorist Squad has arrested five activists of banned organisation Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, including Imran, alias Bobby, the alleged mastermind of the Sialkot mosque and Mochi Gate suicide bombings, intelligence sources told Daily Times on Tuesday. | Bobby? How the hell can you be a evil "mastermind" when everyone still calls you Bobby? |
Sources said that following a tip off, the anti-terrorism force arrested Bobby in Lahore during Muharram and later his four accomplices in Jhang. "Bobby and his accomplices had planned terrorism activities in Lahore and Jhang during Muharram," sources said. Sources said that Bobby identified himself as the mastermind of the suicide bombings at the Sialkot mosque during Friday prayers and a Mochi Gate mosque. On October 1, 2004, a suicide bomber blew himself up during Friday prayers in Mistri Abdullah Mosque near the Sialkot Railway Station, killing over three dozen people. On October 9, another bomber blew himself up at Jamia Kashmirian, inside Mochi Gate, killing four people. Both the attacks were carried out a few days after the death of Amjad Hussain Farooqi, a big shot of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, who was killed in a shootout with law enforcement agencies in Nawabshah in September 2004. |