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6 policemen martyred in gun, bomb attack in DI Khan

2019-07-22

[DAWN] Nine people, including three civilians and six coppers, died in two back-to-back attacks in Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... on Sunday. According to Dl Khan District Police Officer (DPO) Salim Riaz, unidentified button men on four cycle of violences opened fire on coppers at the Kotla Saidan checkpost in a residential area at approximately 7:45am on Sunday morning, martyring two coppers. Following the gun attack, a suicide kaboom took place at the hospital where the victims were shifted, the DPO said. The bomber struck at the entrance to the hospital, martyring four coppers and three civilians who were visiting their relatives. Inayatullah, a local forensics expert, said the attacker was female and set off 7 kilograms of explosives packed with nails and ball-bearings. However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... police have yet to confirm or deny details about the bomber as the investigation is still in its early stages. About 30 others were maimed in the two incidents, DPO Riaz said. The blast damaged the emergency room, forcing it to be shut down, according to a hospital official, who said the maimed were then shifted to a military hospital. The official spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal. The DPO added that according to an initial probe, the attack appeared premeditated. The TTP claimed the attack but did not acknowledge that the bomber was a woman. According to a statement from TTP spokesperson Muhammad Khorasani, the attack was carried out in retaliation for the killing of a suspected terrorist by the Counter-Terrorism Department in DI Khan on June 23. The Daily Mail has post-attack photos and video, and adds: Police have now arrested 16 suspects in the attack, all of whom belong to banned organisations. Police officer Habib Ahmed said authorities also seized weapons during the manhunt. Dera Ismail Khan has seen a number of suicide attacks over the past decade as the Pakistani military carried out a campaign to suppress militant attacks in the area, an important hub in the £48billion China Pakistan Economic Corridor.

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Bangladesh

FATIKCHHARI ATTACKS: Jamaat played active role

2013-04-16

[Bangla Daily Star] Local Jamaat-Shibir men, including Bhujpur union parishad Chairman Shafiul Alam Nuri, were involved in Thursday's attacks on law enforcers and an Awami League procession in the union, according to primary police investigation. Nuri and 34 others of more than 5,000 accused in the case filed in connection with the attack were produced before a Chittagong court yesterday. Investigation officer (IO) of the case Khandaker Babul yesterday told The Daily Star that they would seek 10 days' remand for each of the arrestees produced in the court. As of yesterday, 47 people have been incarcerated I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! in the upazila in connection with the attack. Asked about the progress of the investigation, acting officer-in-charge (OC) of Bhujpur Police Station Aong Sha Thowai said Jamaat-Shibir men were directly involved in the attack. "From footage, local sources and witnesses, we have confirmed that Jamaat-Shibir men, particularly the Bhujpur union parishad chairman, and its member Taskeer, were involved in the attack," he said. Jamaat leaders Nuri and Taskeer were picked up after the incident. Mohammad Farid Uddin, additional superintendent (ASP) of Chittagong police (North), said, "According to evidence, the duo played a vital role in the attack. Chairman Nuri was comparatively more aggressive and one of the criminal masterminds." The ASP said police had not yet found any connection of Hefajat-e Islam with the attack. They, however, suspect Hefajat supporters might have been involved in it. On Thursday, alleged Jamaat-Shibir men, joined by several thousand villagers, attacked an AL motor procession and law enforcers following a rumour that the marchers had killed a madrasa teacher and were about to attack the Kazirhat mosque and a Hefajat-run madrasa. Three people were killed and more than 100 people, including 15 coppers, four fire fighters and two border guards, were maimed in the attack. The attackers also set fire to around 100 vehicles, including 50 cycle of violences and a fire-fighting vehicle. Local AL leader ATM Peyarul Islam said they were preparing to file a case with Bhujpur police in connection with killing of their three party men. Contacted, Ameer of Fatikchhari unit Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... Maulana Habib Ahmed denied the allegation of Jamaat's involvement in the incident. "Jamaat's hold in Bhujpur is weak; the area is rather a stronghold of Hefajat-e Islam," he said, adding, "Hefajat men could have been involved in the mayhem." Despite repeated attempts, no leaders of Bujpur unit Hefajat-e Islam could be reached for their comments. On Friday, police filed a case against more than 5,000 people, including 100 named, for swooping on law enforcers, obstructing their duty, committing arson and vandalism and creating anarchy at Kazirhat area on Thursday.

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Britain

'Invisible ink' al-Qaeda plotter released early from prison

2011-09-19

A member of al-Qaeda nabbed for ten years in 2008 for his part in a terror plot has been released early from prison. Habib Ahmed, 32, was convicted after being caught smuggling code books written in invisible ink into the country. He was part of a British terror cell, headed by Rangzieb Ahmed, that police believe were planning a massacre in Britannia. But despite being nabbed for ten years in December 2008, he has now been released and is living at a bail hostel in Manchester. During his trial the court heard how Ahmed downloaded a document called "a study of liquidation" and looked up bomb-making techniques. He also checked on the addresses of former Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon, military bases and senior coppers. He was caught when British Customs found notebooks containing names and phone numbers of key al Qaeda figures as he flew from Dubai to hand them to Ahmed was incarcerated in 2006 and so had spent five years in prison including time spent on remand. A front man for the National Offender Management Service said: "Serious offenders on licence are subject to strict conditions and controls."

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Britain

Hate cleric's web of terror

2010-01-15

Jalal Hussain: Shared platform with preacher after 2yrs and 3 months for fundraising for Iraqi insurgents. Ibrahim Hassan: Also joined Choudary at rally - after 2yrs and nine months for inciting terror overseas. Death plotters Mizanur Rahman: Jailed for 2yrs in 2006 for race hate - and 4yrs in 2007 for incitement to murder. Simon Keeler: Got 3½yrs in 2008 for terror fundraising and incitement to kill Our Boys abroad. Abu Izzadeen: Caged for 3½yrs in 2008 for terrorist fundraising and incitement to kill UK troops. Rahman Saleem: 2½yrs jail in 2007 for race hate and 2yrs in 2008 for inciting terrorism abroad. Abdul Muhid: Got 4yrs in 2007 for soliciting murder and 9 months in 2008 for terror fundraising. Umran Javed: The 27-year-old was caged for four years in January 2007 for soliciting murder. Bomb gang Omar Khyam: Jailed for life in April 2007 for leading "fertiliser bomb" plot targeting Bluewater shopping centre. Waheed Mahmood: Fellow Bluewater plotter - alias Abdul Waheed - was also given life in April 2007. Jawad Akbar: Third member of the fertiliser bomb plot mob - he too was handed a life jail sentence in April 2007. Anthony Garcia: Bluewater plotter No4 - the 24-year-old was jailed for life along with his evil accomplices. Firebomb Amer Mirza: Sentenced to 6 months in March 1999 for petrol-bombing a West London Territorial Army base. Ali Beheshti: Maniac aged 41 was locked up for 4½ years in April last year for conspiracy to firebomb. Race hate Iftikhar Ali: Hit with £3,000 fine in October 2000 for distributing leaflets with intention to stir up race hate. Zaheen Mohamed: Aged 27, slapped with a two-year community order in July 2005 for inciting racial hatred. Dead terrorists Aftab Manzoor: Member of Choudary's Al-Muhajiroun organisation - Manzoor was killed fighting in Afghanistan at the age of 25 in October 2001. Asif Hanif: Suicide bomber blew himself up in Israel - and was another fanatical supporter of Choudary's sinister Al-Muhajiroun organisation. Afzal Munir: The devotee of now-banned Al-Muhajiroun organisation was also killed in Afghanistan at age of 25 in October 2001. Siddique Khan: The 7/7 suicide bomber is feared to have undergone explosives training at a Pakistan camp organised by Al-Muhajiroun recruits. Al-Qaeda Habib Ahmed: Terror group member was found with documents detailing "operatives" and was sentenced to ten years in December 2008

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Britain

Qaeda man says he fabricated past

2009-02-10

A British-born Pakistani man who said he had links to Al Qaeda and had sent young men for terrorism training in Pakistan has told a court that he was lying about his past. Hassan Butt, 28, told Manchester Crown Court he had fed stories to the media and that his portrayal of himself as a terrorist planner who later renounced violence in order to fight extremism was a fabrication. He made the confession in December during the trial of a former friend, Habib Ahmed, who was subsequently convicted of belonging to Al Qaeda. Restrictions on the reporting of the case have only now been lifted following the conclusion of another trial involving Butt's wife. "At no point have I ever been training, have I ever been a jihadi," Butt told the court, according to a transcript of the proceedings. Feeding media: Questioning Butt about his past, prosecutor Andrew Edis asked, "So, you were a professional liar then?" Butt replied: "I would make money, yes." He had, he said, told stories that "the media wanted to hear". The confession will come as a surprise to many as Butt was for years regarded as a leading extremist who had subsequently turned himself into a proponent for 'de-radicalising' young men in order to combat extremism. He has been widely profiled in newspapers, magazines and in television documentaries, and even met members of the government to discuss his plans for combating radicalism. In a Reuters interview in April last year, Butt said he had spent a decade inside extremist factions, during which he said he had sent recruits to Pakistan. He said he began questioning his beliefs after the July 2005 attacks by suicide bombers on London in which 52 people were killed. "I financed terrorism, I recruited people to go to terrorist training camps, I myself have been to terrorist training camps," he said in the interview. "I was involved in the whole world of radical Islam from the age of 16 onwards." Reuters does not pay for interviews. Butt has been arrested five times by counter-terrorism officers, but was released each time without charge. A spokeswoman for Greater Manchester Police said on Monday there were no charges against Butt and he was a free man. He did not respond to phone calls seeking comment. It is not clear why Butt would have fabricated so much of his past, and even gone to the lengths of stabbing himself in the arm to make it look like he had been attacked by extremists for speaking out against extremism. Shiv Malik, a journalist who has profiled Butt and who wrote a book called "Leaving Al Qaeda: Inside The Life And Mind of A British Jihadist" based on interviews with him, said he planned to carry on his research. Malik is now writing a book about Butt's life and trying to piece together what was true and what was false. "All this had to come from somewhere, so there's definitely a story there," he told Reuters. "I particularly want to look at Butt's involvement with Britain's security services." Asked if he would be interviewing Butt, he replied: "I think I've had all the interviews with him that I want to have."

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Britain

Briton 'linked to Al-Qaeda leadership'

2008-12-19

(AKI) - In a groundbreaking ruling on Thursday, a British court convicted Pakistani-descended Rangzieb Ahmed of directing terrorism. He is the first person to be found guilty of the offence in the United Kingdom. Ahmed, 33 was also found guilty of belonging to Al-Qaeda and was a key link between British recruits and Al-Qaeda leaders. The jury cleared him on seven other counts, which included claims that he had "hitlists" of possible high-profile targets including former Prime Minister Tony Blair and Ministry of Defence officials. A second defendant, taxi driver Habib Ahmed, 29, was also convicted of the charge of belonging to Al-Qaeda. His wife was not guilty of attending a terrorist training camp in Pakistan in 2006 and arranging funding for the purposes of terrorism. Rangzieb and Habib Ahmed showed no emotion as the verdict was read out. Their sentences will be announced on Friday. The two men are not related. Manchester Crown Court in northern England heard during the trial that luggage belonging to Ahmed was found to contain diaries with the names and phone numbers of other Al-Qaeda operatives, some of which were written in invisible ink. The contacts in Ahmed's diary included Hamza Rabia, Al-Qaeda's suspected former third in command, who was killed in an explosion. Police continued to monitor Ahmed when he returned to Britain after counter-terrorism officers in late 2005 placed him under surveillance in Dubai, where prosecutors said he had travelled on an aborted Al-Qaeda mission. Ahmed abandoned the mission when a senior Al-Qaeda leader was killed in a United States missile attack, prosecutors said. Phone taps by British intelligence revealed Ahmed's high-level links to Al-Qaeda leaders in South Asia and his role as a trusted and experienced operative. He had been in contact with one of the men who carried out a botched suicide bombing mission on the London public transport on 21 July, 2005, according to prosecutors. Ahmed also set up a terror cell in Manchester that backed insurgents in Afghanistan, but which was broken up by police last year. Ahmed's lawyers say he was tortured during eight months of detention in Pakistan's notorious Adiala Jail after Pakistani police arrested him there in August 2006 over alleged links with Al-Qaeda. Ahmed claims a CIA officer was present during his arrest in Pakistan and that he was visited by British intelligence officers while he was in Adiala.

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Britain

Alleged terrorists wanted 'violent jihad' in Manchester

2008-09-25

A Manchester taxi driver was a secret member of al-Qaida who had a terrorists' "contacts book" with phone numbers written in invisible ink, a court was told. Habib Ahmed, 28, of Cheetham Hill, attended a terrorist training camp in Pakistan and was funded in his activities by his wife Mehreen Haji, it was claimed. A jury at Manchester Crown Court was told Habib Ahmed was called on to help conduct terrorist business in the UK and abroad by Rangzieb Ahmed, a 33-year-old Rochdale-born man who was an "important member" of al-Qaida. It was claimed that the terrorists' contacts book belonged to Rangzieb Ahmed and that he gave it to Habib Ahmed. The book was found when police secretly searched Habib's luggage as he flew back to Britain from Dubai. The two men, who are not related, deny they were members of al-Qaida and have gone on trial along with Habib Ahmed's wife in a case which is expected to last up to three months. Andrew Edis QC, prosecuting, said the investigation had involved the use of listening devices in a hotel room in Dubai and inside two cars in Manchester. The jury was shown a series of documents including a flyer found at Habib Ahmed and Mehreen Haji's North Manchester home showing a picture of a sub machine gun under the heading "Jihad in Manchester?" - advertising an event with speakers at Longsight library. Mr Edis said Habib Ahmed and Mehreen Haji had been interested in the idea of violent Jihad and had been married by Muslim cleric Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad who was the leader of the now defunct organisation al-Mujaharoun. The jury was shown a picture of the Sheikh at the wedding celebration and his signature on the couple's marriage certificate. The certificate also bore the name of witness, Hassan Butt who Mr Edis explained had given a number of interviews to newspapers saying he was a Taliban supporter and terrorist recruiter. The jury was also told of books found at the couple's home and information on a computer including evidence someone had looked up information from the Anarchist's Cookbook including how to make explosives, lock picking and how to kill someone with your bare hands. A book called "Join the Caravan", which said fighting those occupying Muslim lands was a religious obligation was also found at the house. Forensic examination of a computer found at the house revealed Mehreen Haji had been interested in the topic of Jihad and suicide missions because there was evidence of Google searches on whether they could be justified on religious grounds and notes she had made from those searches. "December 2005 to July and August 2006. That is the key period," Mr Edis said. "The prosecution say that during that time Rangzieb Ahmed who was a member of al Qaida - and an important member of al Qaida who was in a position to direct some of its activities - was engaged in an operation which involved him travelling to Dubai and intending to travel onward to South Africa, but being diverted - because something went wrong - to the UK. "He was travelling on important al Qaida business. In that exercise he was assisted by Habib Ahmed who flew out to Dubai to help him. After they had met in Dubai they both separately flew to the UK arriving on or around Christmas or late December. "Rangzieb Ahmed stayed in the UK for most of the time until January 17 2006 when he flew out to Pakistan. During that time he was meeting al Qaida contacts and being assisted by Habib Ahmed." He added: "Rangzieb Ahmed is a British national born in Rochdale. He went to Pakistan when he was quite young and spent most of his life out of this country in other places. But his visits to this country in 2005 and 2006 are of importance. The prosecution say he came here when he was doing al Qaida business. "After he had gone Habib Ahmed remained in this country, it is where he lives. He continued to be a member of al Qaida and in April 2006 he went to a training camp in Pakistan to be trained in how to be an active terrorist. That costs money. When he was there his wife Mehreen Haji sent two tranches of money to him of £2,000 or thereabouts on each occasion." Mr Edis said that when Habib returned from Dubai via Holland his bags were secretly searched by the police there and found to contain three books. "The prosecution say that those books contained information of considerable importance to a terrorist because it is information which enables terrorists to communicate by email with each other secretly and also some important phone numbers for terrorist contacts - the contacts book of a terrorist," said Mr Edis. The jury was told Ranggzieb Ahmed had admitted to being a member of another organisation banned in this country called Harkat-ul-Mujihadeen, but that he denied being a member of al Qaida. Rangzieb Ahmed and Habib Ahmed are both charged with membership of Al Qaeda between January 1 2002 and September 1 2006 and possession of three books linked with terrorism between April 22 2004 and April 12 2006. Rangzieb Ahmed, 33, of Barnston Avenue, Fallowfield is further charged with directing terrorism between April 22 2004 and August 24 2006 and possession of a rucksack containing traces of explosives between April 22 2004 and January 17 2006. Habib Ahmed, 28, from Cheetham Hill faces additional charges of possession of information for terrorist purposes contained in books between April 13 2006 and August 24 2006 and electronic records connected with terrorism on August 23 2006. He is also charged with attending a terrorist training camp in Pakistan between April 23 2006 and June 27 2006. Mehreen Haji, 27, from Cheetham Hill, is charged with two counts of funding terrorism to the tune of £2,005 on May 11 2006 and £1,991 on May 12 2006 which was given to Habib Ahmed. They deny the charges.

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India-Pakistan

SHC upholds Akram Lahori's acquittal

2007-02-24

A division bench of the Sindh High Court dismissed Friday the state’s appeal and upheld the acquittal of three activists of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi in a murder case. LJ activists Muhammad Ajmal alias Akram Lahori, Attaullah alias Qasim and Muhammad Azam were acquitted by Anti-Terrorism Court Karachi-IV on April 30, 2003, giving them the benefit of the doubt. According to the prosecution, they killed by firing Shaukat Raza Mirza, the Pakistan State Oil (PSO) managing director, at Race Course roundabout on July 26, 2001. Representing the state, AAG Habib Ahmed and Special Prosecutor I A Hashmi submitted that the trial court, instead of discussing the evidence of eyewitnesses examined by the prosecution, had discussed at length non-examined eyewitnesses. They stated that the accused killed the deceased for sectarian reasons therefore they did not deserve any leniency. They prayed the court to set aside the trial court order, examine the witnesses of the impugned judgment and convict the accused of the offence, which they committed. Defence counsel M R Syed and A Rasheed Nizamani, opposing the state’s appeal, supported the trial court judgment. The SHC’s division bench, comprising Justice Rahmat Hussain Jaferi and Justice Munib Ahmed Khan, for reasons to be recorded separately, dismissed the state’s appeal against the trial court judgment and upheld the acquittal of the LJ activists.

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India-Pakistan

Macedonian consulate blast: Nine Harkat activists acquitted

2006-11-24

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court set aside Thursday the conviction of nine activists of the banned Harkatul Mujahideen al-Alami and acquitted them of the honorary Macedonian consulate explosion, killing and dacoity charges. Syed Sohail Akhtar alias Mustafa, Zafar Iqbal alias Sohail, Naeem Rafi alias Nimi, Mohammad Atif alias Kamran, Mohammad Khalid, Mahmoodullah, Abdul Razzaq alias Bhaiya, Samirullah alias Somi and Syed Ahmar Kazmi were sentenced to an aggregate 60 years in prison by an anti-terrorism court in Karachi on August 25, 2004. They were prosecuted for killing three persons - Hameed Masih, Muhammad Asif and Ghazala Parveen - at midnight on December 5, 2002. The victims were at the consulate’s office in DHA Karachi at the time. The prosecution also alleged that the appellants also committed a dacoity and took the computer, printer, fax machine, PABX and other articles from the consulate. Appellant counsels Abdul Waheed Katpar and M.R. Syed said the prosecution could not prove its case before a trial court and the benefit of the doubt should have been given to the appellants. They said the statements of eyewitnesses were contradictory and could not be relied upon to convict the appellants. They prayed for an acquittal of the appellants from the charges. Assistant Advocate General Sindh Habib Ahmed supported the trial court judgment and prayed the court to enhance the sentence of the appellants. The SHC’s division bench comprising Justice Rehmat Hussain Jaffery and Justice Yasmeen Abbasey, after hearing the arguments of both sides and perusing the record of the case, for reasons to be recorded later on, set aside the trial court’s conviction and ordered the release of the appellants if they were not involved in other cases.

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Britain

Woman to face court on terror charges

2006-09-26

(KUNA) -- A 25-year-old woman has been charged with two terror offences, police said Monday. Mehreen Haji, of Manchester, northern England, is accused of two counts of entering into funding arrangements for the purposes of terrorism. Haji was arrested by Greater Manchester Polices Anti-Terrorist Unit on September 19 as part of an ongoing investigation. She will appear at Westminster Magistrates Court, in central London, tomorrow, the police added. It is alleged that on May 11, she entered into an arrangement as a result of which 2,005 pounds was made available to Habib Ahmed, knowing or having reasonable suspicion that it would, or might be used for the purposes of terrorism, contrary to the UK Terrorism Act 2000. She faces a similar charge that she provided 1,999 pounds to Ahmed last May 12. Ahmed, 26, also from Manchester, appeared before Westminster Magistrates Court last Thursday accused of collecting information about potential terrorist targets and travelling to Pakistan earlier this year for terrorism training. Ahmed, who was held by police for the full 28-day detention period allowed under new terror laws, was remanded in custody until this Thursday. Haji was detained by officers following a raid at a house in Radcliffe, Bury, northern England. Police said they were looking at "terrorist financing, travel patterns and individuals attending terrorist training camps abroad". They said they were examining suspected links to banned radical Islamic group Al-Muhajiroun. The raid was linked to earlier raids on September 3 when two men were arrested but later released without charge. None of the arrests are linked to the alleged terror plot to blow up transatlantic airliners or the July 7 bombings last year, the police said.

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India-Pakistan

SHC postpones appeals in Daniel Pearl case

2006-05-31

The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday postponed the appeals hearing for four men convicted in the killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl after a request from one of the men's attorneys, an official said. The SHC adjourned the hearing until August 8 after two lawyers who were recently appointed asked for more time to study the case, said Habib Ahmed, a government prosecutor. The lawyers for Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a British-born militant facing the death sentence for killing Pearl, will replace Abdul Waheed Katpar, who had been Sheikh's defence counsel at trial. Sheikh and three other men, who were sentenced to life in prison, were convicted in July 2002 for their part in Pearl's killing. All the four men have appealed their convictions, but the appeals hearings have been postponed several times. Four other suspects are still at large. Earlier this month, Sheikh was moved to the Central Prison in Karachi from a jail in Hyderabad where he had been held since his conviction. Police cited security reasons for moving Sheikh to Karachi.

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Afghanistan-Pak-India

Three confess bombing Karachi

2005-11-18

Three men from the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) have confessed to involvement in a car bomb blast near a US fast food chain outlet that killed three people, a court official said. An anti-terrorism court had remanded the men in custody for seven days while investigations continued into Tuesday’s bombing of a branch of the KFC chain in Karachi, said public prosecutor Habib Ahmed. Police said the trio belong to the BLA, which is engaged in a low-level insurgency in Balochistan. A purported representative of the group had claimed responsibility hours after the blast, which killed two security guards and a passer-by, saying the attack had been targeted at Pakistan Petroleum Limited offices near the KFC. The state-run company operates a large natural gas field in impoverished Balochistan, whose tribes believe they should be getting a greater share of profits from the province’s natural wealth. “The accused during interrogation confessed their role in the bombing,” Ahmed said, adding that “many of their accomplices are still in hiding”. Chief police investigator Manzoor Mughal said the trio, all aged in their 30s, were arrested while trying to escape in a car. They included the “gang leader”, identified as Aziz Khan. Police recovered two Kalashnikovs, two grenades and three kilogrammes of explosive material from a building they used as a hideout, he said. “They were working for the so-called BLA,” he said. “Several of their accomplices, who are hiding in Karachi, will also be arrested shortly,” he said, stressing the “BLA was behind the blast”.

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