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| Zakhilwal slams Pak officials for irresponsible remarks regarding Quetta attack |
| 2016-10-27 |
| [Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan Ambassador to Pakistain Omar Zakilwal has slammed the Pak officials for the irresponsible remarks following a deadly attack on a police academy in Quetta city. Zakhilwal has said the Pak authorities should not offer irresponsible remarks regarding the recent Quetta incidetn as he strongly condemned the attack. "The Afghan people who witness similar terrorist attacks on our people and soil on daily basis can fully identify with the horror of such crimes against innocent people carried out by terrorist networks such as the AlQaeda affiliated Lashkar e Jhangvi that grabbed credit for last night’s senseless massacre," Zakhilwal said. According to the local media reports, the Pak Prime Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... was informed that the assailants had come from Afghanistan and were in contact with their handlers in the neighbouring country. The reports further added that the prime minister said the issue would be taken up with Afghanistan. |
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| India-Pakistan |
| Karachi killings: accused granted remand till Feb 28 |
| 2011-02-24 |
| [Geo News] Local court in Bloody Karachi has granted physical remand for banned outfit Lashkar e Jhangvi's leader Sajid Baloch, allegedly involved in murders, till February 28. Police of Aziz Bhatti cop shoppe presented accused Sajid Baloch in the court of Judicial Magistrate Javed Iqbal. During the hearing, investigation officer sought physical remand after which court handed over the accused to police for further investigation. Sajid Ali Balioch is accused in murders of MQM's worker Yawar Abbas in PIB Colony among various others. According to investigation officer Sarfraz, accused has admitted his involvement in three incidents of murders, adding that further investigation is underway. |
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| India-Pakistan |
| Top Qaeda operative held in Multan |
| 2008-07-16 |
| Security agencies arrested a top Al Qaeda operative late on Monday along with his two accomplices in Punjab's southern city of Multan, sources told Daily Times on Tuesday. The personnel of the security agencies arrested the three suspected terrorists from a shutdown 'Neel Wali Factory' located on Abdali Road, the sources said. Officials have identified the suspects as Tanzanian national Muhammad Al Misri, Anwar Muawiya and Muhammad Shahid. The sources said the arrest of Al Misri is the second biggest catch following the arrest of Mullah Obaidullah Akhund, former defence minister in the Taliban government, on March 2, 2007. Wave: The officials said that Al Misri is closely linked with Al Qaeda's top hierarchy. Al Misri is also suspected to be behind the series of suicide attacks in the country following the crackdown on the Lal Masjid codenamed 'Operation Silence', they said. The sources said that according to preliminary investigations, Al Misri knows five languages including English, Persian, Arabic, Pushto and Urdu. Anwar, a resident of Abbotabad, belongs to the banned Lashkar e Jhangvi (LJ), the sources said, adding Shahid, another LJ activist, is a local of Multan. The three militants were hiding in the factory for the past one week, the sources said. |
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| Terror Networks |
| The Man Who Is Planning the Next Attack on America |
| 2006-08-11 |
| Pakistani officials tell ABC News a new terrorist plan to attack the United States and Europe is being organized by a shadowy Pakistani, who is the keeper of the log of recruits who attended al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan in the 1990s. Pakistani police and military officials identify the man as Matiur Rehman, whose role as al Qaeda's planning director was first revealed by ABCNews.com earlier this year. U.S. law enforcement sources tell ABC News Rehman is now the "leading suspect" in the attack earlier this year on the U.S. consulate in Karachi that killed a State Department Foreign Service officer, David Foy. Officials say the car bomb attack was planned by Rehman. The officials say Rehman was spotted within the last month in the slums of North Karachi but escaped capture. The Pakistani government has posted a reward of 10 million rupees for the capture of Rehman, who also uses the aliases "Akeel Khan" and "Sadamd Sial." U.S. law enforcement officials tell ABC News there has been great concern since last March about a "Pakistani" network that could attempt multiple international attacks. Rehman, along with his deputy, another Pakistani named Qari Hassan, are believed to be keepers of the "Directory of Jihad," which officials say contains "thousands of names" of young militants who trained at al Qaeda camps and have since dispersed around the world. U.S. law enforcement officials confirm al Qaeda kept extensive recruitment records, many of which were recovered after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. Rehman, now in his mid-30s, worked as an explosives instructor in the al Qaeda camps, according to Pakistani officials, who say he has been deeply involved in most of the major terror attacks in Pakistan in the last few years. Officials say they disrupted yet another Rehman plot last month to assassinate Pakistani President Musharaff at a summer festival. Pakistan intelligence officials tell ABC News that Rehman moves between between Karachi, Waziristan and South Punjab, where he was born. He is in "constant communication" with al Qaeda's top leaders, according to the officials. A former militant of the Pakistani terrorist groups Harakat ul Jihad ul Islami and Lashkar e Jhangvi, Rehman rose to prominence in the late 1990s by setting up elaborate networks in Pakistan through which he recruited young men to be trained in al Qaeda's camps. Pakistani intelligence officials tell ABC News that between 10,000 and 50,000 militants received basic training in these camps, where the best recruits were directly "hired" by al Qaeda. The rest was used by Pakistan's most violent terrorist groups such as Lashkar e Jhangvi, Harakat ul Mujahideen and Jaish e Muhammad, either to fight in Kashmir or India, or conduct sectarian attacks within Pakistan. U.S. officials say there is no information that any attack on the United States is imminent. |
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| Three LJ men arrested with bag of grenades | |
| 2005-05-30 | |
 Intelligence agencies arrested three activists of outlawed Lashkar e Jhangvi from Sargodha on Monday morning and seized a bag full of hand grenades from their possession, which according to sources were to be used in terrorist attacks. Sources told Daily Times that the agencies were watching the men for the last week after being tipped off about their mysterious movements. The men were identified as Zafar Iqbal, Mansoor and Mistri Saeed.
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