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India-Pakistan
Senior Pakistani Taliban Leader Detained
2010-03-16
Pakistani forces have arrested a top Pakistani Taliban leader, Qari Shabbir, in Faisalabad on Sunday.

Qari Shabbir is said to be a close associate of recently killed extremist Dr Moaz Elias Umar Kundi. Shabbir has been shifted to an unknown place for investigation.

Sources told Geo TV that he provided logistic support to the militants in the Punjab. However, police has denied his arrest.

The arrest comes in a series of detention of both Taliban and Al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan over the past one month. Pakistani forces nabbed Afghan Taliban No 2, Mullah Baradar, who was on the day-to-day command of militant operations in Afghanistan.
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India-Pakistan
Benazir murder suspects escape raid in Pindi
2008-01-12
Police on Friday raided a house in Rawalpindi to arrest two men allegedly involved in former premier Benazir Bhutto’s assasination case, reported a private television channel.

According to Geo News, police raided the house of Qari Shabbir Rabbani in the Koh-e-noor Mills area to arrest a Pakistani and an Afghan national allegedly involved in Benazir’s murder. The two men, however, managed to flee before the police raid. The channel reported that police later launched a search operation in all of Rawalpindi city for their arrest.

Zardari: Meanwhile, caretaker Interior Minister Lt Gen (r) Hamid Nawaz Khan said on Friday the Scotland Yard team wants to meet Benazir’s husband, Asif Ali Zardari, News One television channel reported.

Khan denied reports that Pakistan had determined the jurisdiction of the British team, and said the British government had done this prior to the team’s arrival in Pakistan. He said Indian intelligence agency RAW’s involvement in the recent suicide bombing could not be ruled out. Meanwhile, British High Commissioner Robert Brinkley said the Scotland Yard team would provide forensic and other technical assistance to the Pakistani investigation teams probing Benazir’s assassination. The British team is also re-viewing video clips and pictures recorded at the time of the incident in Rawalpindi, Online reported. Also on Friday, three new members of the Scotland Yard team visited the crime scene where Benazir was assassinated, police sources said.
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Afghanistan/South Asia
Cleric shot dead in Sargodha
2005-02-11
Maulana Qari Shabbir Ahmad Usman, the principal of the Jamia Usmania seminary, was shot dead by two motorcyclists at Morr 47 in Sargodha late on Thursday, police said. Mansoorul Haq Rana, the assistant superintendent of police in Sargodha, told Daily Times that two robbers tried to stop Maulana Usman and gunned him down when he resisted. He was going to see his uncle in Liaqatabad after leading Isha prayers. "It is a criminal act and has nothing to do with terrorism," Rana said.

He added that the unidentified killers had snatched money from two other people after tying them with ropes. The two victims witnessed the cleric's murder, Rana said. The official said that the police had increased security in the district.
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