Arrested TTP Karachi leader confesses to killing KP minister’s son

Abdul Qayyum Mehsood, arrested earlier this month, confesses to killing son of Mian Iftikhar Hussain.


Express January 11, 2012

KARACHI: The chief of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Karachi chapter, arrested earlier this month, has confessed to killing the son of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain, confirmed Crime Investigation Department (CID) Sindh Police on Wednesday.

SSP CID Fayyaz Khan said that Abdul Qayyum Mehsood confessed to killing Rashid Hussain by firing at him in Nowshera on July 24 last year. The culprit also told the police that he was accompanied by Naqeebullah and Kaleemullah, two of his fellows who were later killed in a drone strike.

The TTP man also said that the killing was properly planned.

Hussain was out on a walk with his friend in the Pabbi area near Nowshera district when gunmen opened fire at them. They both were shifted to a hospital where Hussain succumbed to his injuries.

The SSP said that the TTP leader was arrested on January 5 along with three of his accomplices in a police encounter in Manghopir. Several weapons, suicide jackets and rockets were also recovered from their possession.

CID AIG Shabbir Shiekh had said that the suspects were involved in a dozen bomb attacks, kidnappings for ransom, murders and robberies in Karachi.

Police kills alleged terrorist, two flee at Empress Market

The police claimed to have killed an alleged terrorist in an encounter at Empress Market in Karachi, reported Express News.

Two of his accomplices managed to escape, said the police.

A hand grenade has been recovered from the killed suspect; however, his identity still remains unknown.

COMMENTS (20)

numbersnumbers | 12 years ago | Reply

@Adnan: SO, you say that "Drones only manage to kill these terrorists less than half of the time, the other times its civilians who die. The drone operations should be continued but with assistance from Pakistan army and missiles fired at suspected terrorist bases, not on civilians"!

Once again, the Drone's expensive Hellfire missles are used with targeting provided by Army/ISI agents on the ground in the target area! They are not randomly fired at "civilians" as you seem to infer. If the Americans didn't care about civilian casualties, the B-52s would have appeared over FATA long ago!

Umer | 12 years ago | Reply

No worry, terrorist friendly court will absolve any such people

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