Daily Times

KARACHI: The Counter-Terrorism Wing (CTW) of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) claims to have arrested an alleged worker of Islamic State (IS) who was involved in recruiting youngsters to the terror outfit.

According to details, the law enforcement agency had received an intelligence tip regarding the IS recruiter and tracked him down using his cell phone location.

FIA officials also claimed to have recovered 51 web pages being run by the arrested accused for the past eight months, where he was alluring and recruiting young blood, including girls, for the Islamic State.

Accused Khalilur Rehman, a resident of Khairpur Meeras, a small city of interior Sindh, was rounded up when he got off a train at the Cantt Railways Station in Karachi, officials said, adding that they also recovered a pistol, flags of Daesh (Islamic State) and two cell phones from his custody.

According to source, FIA CTW Additional Director Rehmatullah Domki was supervising the raiding team. “He has four children, wife and mother … we are still investigating why a metric pass normal person turned into a radical worker,” officials told Daily Times.

FIA officials said they had broadened the investigation into the recovered web pages and social media accounts to obtain clues about radical elements of the Islamic State and banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). They said the accused recruited people for the terror group using social media, and added that he was running more than 100 social media pages on which hate material was uploaded.

They also said that the phones recovered from him have been sent for forensic examination. FIA authorities said that a case had been registered against the suspect in the Counter-Terrorism Wing in Islamabad.

The suspect was presented before a magistrate at the city court, where the FIA requested for his 14-day physical remand. The court approved his physical remand, but only for seven days.

Published in Daily Times, September 29^th 2017.