[DAWN] KARACHI: Police on Thursday claimed to have tossed in the clinkDon't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
an Afghanistan-trained hard boy, said to be an expert in preparing jacket wallahs, who was planning to carry out an act of terrorism on the Kamra airbase in Punjab.
Counter-Terrorism Department SSP Junaid Ahmed Sheikh said the police acting on a tip-off arrested Umer Hayat, alias Darvesh, in MPR Colony, Orangi. He was the Ameer (head) of the Tehrik Imarat-e-Islamia Afghanistan and the 'criminal mastermind' of terror acts, the officer said.
Speaking at a presser at his office, the CTD Operations-II SSP said the held suspect had prepared two alleged suicide bombers identified as Raz Mohammed and Taj Mohammed. These suicide bombers were sent to Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....
to carry out a terror attack on the Kamra airbase but they failed due to extensive security arrangements there and returned to 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...
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The suspect was also planning to carry out terrorist attacks at Eidgahs in Karachi during Eidul Azha. He was also planning to attack military installations in the metropolis.
"He is an expert in preparing suicide jackets and brainwashing suicide bombers," said the CTD officer.
He got training from Afghanistan and remained associated with Afghan Taliban. He was allegedly involved in killing of 140 Afghan soldiers, said the SSP.
The held suspect was also allegedly involved in deadly attacks on law enforcers in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
. He hailed from KP and came to Karachi after the devastating 2005 earthquake, said the CTD officer, adding that he was detained under the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997. His team had 50 members but he had given names of his seven hardcore aides only, as the law enforcers were trying to arrest them to foil their nefarious plots, said SSP Sheikh.