Senior Superintendent Police (SSP) Operations Amir Zulfiqar referred to the two Lashkar-e-Jhangvi activists arrested on Friday as ‘kidnappers’, while talking to reporters on Saturday. He said they planned to kidnap people from Lahore’s three rich families. However, law enforcement agencies’ sources told Daily Times that the two high profile terrorists were activists of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ), a banned militant organisation, and were also involved in abductions for ransom and the police was hiding facts about them deliberately.
The SSP said Shahid from Narowal, also known as Hammad and Billi, was involved in several dacoities, murders and abductions, and his accomplice Shahbaz had committed three murders in Sialkot, Pasroor and Mandi Bahauddin and had taken Rs 20 million in ransom for various abductions. Shahid was arrested from Chungh/Raiwind and Shahbaz was caught from Mozang. |