‘Jundullah chief’ killed in Hub gunfight

Two terrorists gunned down in Awaran, 10 others arrested in Hoshab, Dera Bugti

QUETTA/ KARACHI: Security officials claimed to have killed the alleged chief of the proscribed outfit Jundullah in a pre-dawn raid on a farmhouse in Balochistan’s Hub area.

Saqib alias Arif alias Anjum Abbas was shot dead during an exchange of gunfire between terrorists and security personnel. His wife and nine-year-old son were also injured in the firefight.



Saquib was also deputy chief of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan’s Sindh chapter, a handout cited the Rangers spokesperson as saying. “He maintained ties with Da’esh, al Qaeda and Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), and had been engaged in terror activities in the country.”

The operation, according to sources, was conducted by the paramilitary Frontier Corps as well as law enforcement agencies in the Sakhoran area of Hub.

A suspected suicide bomber was arrested during the raid. A huge cache of explosives materials, hand grenades, rockets, mortar shells, pistols, rifles and other weapons were also recovered.

A spokesperson for the Rangers said the slain militant was involved in a number of terror plots including the attack on former Karachi Corps Commander Lt-General Ahsan Saleem,

Two terrorists shot dead

The Frontier Corps along with law-enforcement agencies killed two terrorists in an operation launched against kidnappers in the Awaran district. One FC soldier was also injured in the operation, according to reports.



Ten members of an outlawed organisation were arrested in Hoshab and Dera Bugti, in addition to recovering a cache of arms and explosives.

A FC spokesman said a search operation was launched in Tank Bazaar area of Hoshab and eight terrorists of the banned Baloch Liberation Front (BLF) were arrested on Friday.

In a separate operation, paramilitary soldiers arrested two terrorists of the banned Baloch Republican Army (BRA) in the Kordan area of Dera Bugti.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 12^th, 2016.