Sindh’s most wanted all in one book

CTD releases eighth edition of its Red Book with profiles of wanted terrorists

KARACHI: A new edition of the Counter-Terrorism Department’s (CTD) Red Book has been issued with the profiles of suspects wanted by the government in connection with terrorist activities, suicide attacks and sectarian violence. The book also mentions the rewards being offered to informants.

For the first time, the book has included names and profiles of suspected militants belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) for their alleged involvement in the Safoora Goth bus attack incident that claimed the lives of 45 members of the Ismaili community and wounded nearly half-a-dozen others on May 13, 2015.

The eighth edition of the Red Book has been sent to all the departments, as well as law enforcement and intelligence agencies concerned for its distribution. The first part of the book contains profiles of Sunni terrorists, while the second part contains profiles of Shia terrorists and lists their association with militant organisations. The book also has the suspects’ photographs, criminal records, names of the terrorist groups they belong to and reward money for their arrest or information about their whereabouts.



The Sunni organisations mentioned include ISIS, alQaeda, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan and Jundullah, while the Shia organisations include Tehreek-e-Jafria Pakistan, Pasban-e-Islam, Mehdi Force and Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan.

The Red Book also contains a section for the ‘Most Wanted Terrorists’ operating in Karachi. This page contains the names of 49 Sunni terrorists, four of whom are associated with the Da’ish, nine associated with alQaeda, 17 associated with the TTP, 11 associated with LeJ and Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan and eight associated with the Jundullah. There are 21 terrorists mentioned in the list that are associated with different banned Shia militant outfits such as Tehreek-e-Jafria Pakistan, Pasban-e-Islam, Mehdi Force and Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan.

The details of the terrorists are given along with their head money in millions, as announced by the government. The wanted Sunni terrorists mentioned in the Red Book with head money include Rs2.5 million for Abdullah Yousuf from Da’ish, Rs2.5 million for Mehmood  from Da’ish, Rs1 million for Muteeal Rehman from the Harkatul Jihad al-Islami/LeJ, Rs0.5 million for Muhammad Ali alias Akhtar of LeJ/ Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, Rs0.5 million for Qari Jameel Burmi alias Qari Sahib of LeJ and Rs0.5 million each for Hammad, Bilal and Shahab from Jundullah.



The wanted Shia terrorists mentioned in the Red Book with head money include Rs1 million for Raza Imam alias Manzar of Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan and Pasban-e-Islam, Rs1 million for Maulana Syed Zulqarnain Haider Naqvi of Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan and Pasban-e-Islam, Rs1m for Syed Muhib Ali Rizvi alias Yawar Abbas of Tehreek-e-Jafria Pakistan, Rs1 million for Syed Mohsin Mehdi Rizvi alias Guddu of Tehreek-e-Jafria Pakistan, Rs0.5 million for Ali Mustehsan of Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan and Mehdi Force, and Rs0.5 million for Syed Asif Hussain Zaidi alias Qureshi, from Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan  and Pasban-e-Islam.

The book also carries the names of the suspects involved in terrorist attacks on former president and chief of army staff General (retd) Pervez Musharraf, the Karachi corps commander and the Karachi airport. They were also involved in several other attacks on law enforcement agencies and sectarian killings in Karachi and some of them are hiding or operating from Afghanistan and Iran.

Pakistan is in a state of war and facing internal and external threats, including the challenge of terrorism. Keeping in view bomb blasts, suicide attacks and elements trying to destabilise national security, the CTD decided to upgrade the Red Book. The basic objective of issuing the book was to develop information on terrorists involved in terrorist acts and share information with the CTDs of Punjab, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan so that joint efforts could be made to eliminate terrorists working against the state.



"In the eighth edition of the Red Book we have documented our major success and deleted over a dozen terrorists’ names, as they were either arrested or killed,” explained CTD SSP Omar Shahid Hamid. "We want the Red Book to be distributed widely so the terrorists’ arrests could be made more easily," he told The Express Tribune.

In case a terrorist wanted by the CTD and listed in the Red Book was killed in an encounter or found dead, he is considered ‘arrested one’ and his name is deleted from the book. The eighth edition has been launched after a major win for the CTD with the arrest of Ataur Rehman alias Naeem Bukhari who carried head money of Rs5 million and was arrested in February, 2016.

Bukhari had been involved in various major terrorist attacks, including the Karachi airport attack, assassination of Karachi's top cop Chaudhry Aslam, jailbreak attempts in Karachi and Hyderabad and the Kamra airbase attack. Other major successes include the arrest of Lyari kingpin Uzair Baloch and the killing of another notorious gangster Noor Muhammad alias Baba Ladla.