Daily Times

KARACHI: Counter-Terrorism Department of the Sindh police on Saturday claim to have arrested a militant commander from Karachi.

CTD officials said that the accused along with his companions was planning to sabotage the census in Karachi.

The accused identified as Abdul Ahad, son of Syed Hayat was arrested by CTD Investigations. He was arrested during a raid conducted on a tip-off near Old Sabzi Mandi area of PIB Colony.

“The arrested accused was a commander of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan-Swat,” said CTD Investigations SP Naveed Khawaja while addressing a press conference at his office. “He had joined TTP-Swat in 2008 and a resident of Bunair, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.”

Sharing details of his terrorist activities, the officer said that the accused along with his companions had attacked the education minister of KPK Sardar Hussain Babak in 2011. The minister, however, had remained unhurt in the attack while fourteen others including police guards were wounded in the attack when the militants had attacked him by resorting indiscriminate fire.

The accused had also been involved in blowing a Government College, Bunair up with bomb in 2008 while the accused along with 100 other militants had also attacked the FC check post in Bunair and seized control of the check post till the operation Zarb-e-Azb.

The officer said that the accused also revealed during initial course of interrogation that number of militants went on hiding in Afghanistan and Karachi following Swat operation. He had also arrived in Karachi while several of his companions remained in hiding in Karachi. “We are now ready to carryout anti-state activities in collaboration with the Jamaatul Ahrar and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi,” said the officer while quoting the initial investigations. “Even we had also planned to sabotage the census.”

SP Khawaja said that the arrested suspect’s name is also included in the most wanted terrorist’s list of KPK and also declared a proclaimed offender by a court in Bunair, adding that the KPK police has been informed about his arrest and the suspect would be handed over to the police officials concerned while further investigation was underway.