Detained: ‘TTP commander’ caught from Kunwari Colony

Police and FC arrest 16 other suspects during operations in various parts of the metropolis.

KARACHI: A man believed to be Tehreek-i-Taliban Commander Mullah Usman Ghani was arrested in an early morning operation in Kunwari Colony on Thursday.

Ghani was caught with three of his accomplices, Mohammad Imran, Hazrat Khan and Noor Ali. Site SP Noor Jehan told The Express Tribune that it has yet to be determined whether the suspects, nabbed with a heavy cache of weapons, were “Taliban or zaliman (oppressors)”.

“But we are sure that the suspects are hardcore criminals who have been involved in a whole lot of illegal activities,” he said.

Counterterrorism officials have previously identified Kunwari Colony as a hotbed for the TTP in Karachi. However till the filing of this report, SP Shah Jehan had yet to lodge a FIR against the accused.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 28^th, 2011.