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| 4 miscreants detained in Sindh on murder beef |
| 2016-08-17 |
| KARACHI: Police on Tuesday claimed to have arrested four members of a banned outfit wanted for masterminding the suicide bombing in Attock last August, which claimed the lives of former Punjab home minister Col (r) Shuja Khanzada and 19 others. According to local media reports, the four alleged terrorists were arrested by the Special Investigation Unit of Sindh Police in Gulshan-e-Iqbal area of the metropolis. The detained include Syed Kashif Ali, Syed Alam, Azhar Hussain and Abdul Adeel. Special Investigation Unit SSP Farooq Awan told reporters the alleged terrorists used to adorn police uniforms when carrying out their criminal activities in Karachi. He said the accused were also planning to kidnap a prominent personality when they were apprehended and had also masterminded the attack that killed former Punjab home minister Shuja Khanzadaa dn 19 others. Outlining their modus operandi, Awan said, the criminals would monitor advertisements on websites and select their victims by identifying their details from the internet. The SIU raiding team also recovered two light machine guns and one AK-47 assault rifle from the alleged terrorists. SSP Awan further told journalists that Kashif Ali had formed the militant outfit Jundullah in 2007 and Abu Sufyan alias Muawiya was the leader of that group. He added that Jundullah was involved in multiple terrorist activities. |
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