LAHORE: Law enforcement personnel on Monday arrested Shahbaz alias Abu Shoaib, a former activist of a religious organisation who was allegedly indirectly involved in supplying vehicles to terrorists, sources told Daily Times on Tuesday. Sources said Abu Shoaib was a car thief and had been expelled from the religious organisation after cases were registered against him with Civil Lines police for stealing vehicles. Sources said a law enforcement team surrounded Kahna village on Ferozepur Road on Sunday night and sealed all entry and exit points to the village. Sources said law enforcement personnel had been tailing Abu Shoaib after he smuggled hundreds of weapons from Afghanistan into Pakistan on a truck eight years ago. Sources said the personnel had followed the weapons consignment till Attock, but lost trace of the truck once it entered Punjab. Sources also said Abu Shoaib opened a car showroom on Queens Road with Faisal, who is reportedly the son-in-law of a renowned religious leader.
Pakistan arrests Lashkar-e-Taiba suspect
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Shahzad was said to have been close to Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, the former chief of Lashkar-e-Taiba who took over as chief of the Islamic charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa just before Lashkar was banned in 2002. Shahzad, according to intelligence officials, also quit Lashkar-e-Taiba in 2003 and formed his own charity after falling out with Saeed.
After the Mumbai train attacks that killed over 180 people and wounded hundreds more on July 11, Indian security forces arrested a number of local suspects believed to be connected to Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba. Both Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jamaat-ud-Dawa are on a U.S. list of terrorist organisations, although Pakistan has taken no action against the charity.