[DAWN] KARACHI: A police investigation report submitted to the Sindh home department said that Safoora bus carnage suspects were aware about the 'hazards' of mobile phones as they used the voice-over internet protocol (VoIP), causing the government to prepare itself for such challenges which might increase in future, it emerged on Friday."The accused persons did not use any mobile SIM for their terrorist activities, they used Talkray, a VoIP software for communication," said the June 30 report prepared by the police chief and lately submitted to the competent authority.
When officials want the government to invest more in countering the challenges they faced with the emergence of ever-increasing VoIP apps, it is very hard for the authorities to deal with it for both financial and technological deficiencies.
The Sindh government's proposal to ban internet chat and telephony apps including Skype, WhatsApp, Tango and Viber in 2013 had invited huge criticism from both friends and foes. It was asked to increase its capacity to counter VoIP-related dangers rather than imposing the ban on the technologies.
If you ban Skype then only terrorists will have Skype.
At least 47 people were killed and 13 others maimed near Safoora Chowk on May 13 when gunnies fired at the Shia Ismaili community members travelling in a bus.In its report, the police claimed that it solved the case within a week and later tossed in the calaboose
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
five 'terrorists' involved in the 'barbaric incident'. The report named them Saad Aziz, Tahir Hussain Minhas, Mohammad Azhar Ishrat, Hafiz Naasir Ahmed and Asad-ur-Rehman.
It said two Kalashnikovs (AK-47 assault rifles) and eight pistols (9mm) with silencers, including the weapons used in the crime, were seized.
The police Sherlocks also impounded the vehicle used in the 'terrorist act' and seized their blood-stained clothes. Also, seven laptops containing 'jihadi' literature were seized during a raid, said the report.
Involved in 37 cases
It stated that "forces of Evil confessed to their involvement in 37 cases of terrorism in 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...
and Hyderabad" during their interrogation by a joint investigation team (JIT) comprising members of 'all law-enforcement agencies and intelligence agencies.
It listed all those cases in which they were involved including the April gun attack on Debra Lobo, a US national and vice principal of the Jinnah Medical and Dental College, the murder of rights and culture activist Sabeen Mehmud, attack on Brig Basit of Pakistain Rangers, several attacks on coppers and Rangers, bank robberies in Hyderabad and Karachi, kaboom at a Bohra Masjid in the Arambagh area, cracker attack on a Beaconhouse School System branch in North Nazimabad, the murder of Bohra community's Bashir Saifuddin and several other cases of murder, kidnapping and bad boy attacks.Giving incriminating evidence available against the suspects, the report said weapons used in the offence were seized and were matched with the empties found at the place of incident by forensic experts. Four cycle of violences and two cars used in the attack have been impounded, the report said.
It added that the weapons and spent bullet casings also matched in 11 other attacks in Karachi.
The report said the printing pattern of literature seized from the possession of the suspects was matching with pamphlets left at the scene of the crime of the Safoora Goth attack, attack on Dr Lobo and two grenade attacks on private schools.
Apart from using VoIP instead of mobile phones, the suspects used code names and everything that could save them from emerging on the radar of intelligence agencies, the police report said. "All forces of Evil are highly educated with good financial background and are proficient in using social media network and internet technology," it stated.