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Terror gang busted in Karachi operation

Islamabad - Officials said that the militants belonging to different banned outfits intended to carry out terrorist activities.

Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of the Sindh police claimed to have foiled major terrorist activities in the city by arresting a gang of militants belonging to Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.
The CTD officials said that the militants belonging to different banned outfits intended to carry out terrorist activities. Two alleged commanders of the AQIS, Irshad alias Zahid and Qari Mohammed Mohsin, and one commander of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Qari Mohammed Akram, are among those arrested, the CTD officials said. The other suspects have been identified as Maulana Abdul Wahab, Syed Riaz Anwar, Mohsin Khan, Anus Ahmed alias Unsi, Mohammed Ashraf, Abdul Wakeel, Raghib and Ovais alias Kashi.
"We have arrested 11 militants, including three of their commanders," claimed CTD in charge Ali Raza at a Press conference at his office on Thursday evening. The officer said that the arrests were made when the CTD team conducted a raid on a tip-off about the presence of militants of terrorist groups at their hideout in Khan Mohammed Colony in Baldia Town late on Tuesday night.
Ten bottle bombs, an explosive-laden rickshaw, five rockets, a rocket launcher, 10 hand grenades, 10 TT pistols, four bombs, two kalashnikovs, two parcel bombs, surgical masks, a hit list, jihadi literature, pamphlets, threatening letters and hundreds of ammunitions were seized from their hideout.
"This gang has been involved in cases of terrorism and target killings in Karachi for the past two years, but in December last year they went underground and now they were again plotting to carry out major terror activities," said the CTD incharge, while quoting the initial investigations. "The recovery of the literature, maps and other stuffs confirm that they were planning to carry out a major terror activityin Karachi."
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