FIA arrests 'RAW member'

Two other men, said to be facilitating a RAW sleeper cell, were also apprehended

KARACHI:

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrested an alleged Indian spy and two others said to be involved in facilitating anti-state terrorist elements through hawala hundi on Wednesday.

According to the FIA, the suspects were affiliated with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-London's Mehmood Siddiqui group, which allegedly works with Indian intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW).

The suspects were later handed over by the administrative judge of an anti-terrorism court to the FIA on a seven-day physical remand.

The FIA presented the three accused in court, claiming that one of them, Zafar, was a member of a RAW sleeper cell and had received training for 14 months in New Delhi. They further added that he was a fire department employee and an expert in handling modern weapons and making bombs.

They also claimed that an international hawala hundi network had been exposed during the investigation against the RAW sleeper cell, adding that the other two arrested men, Sufiyan and Javed Memon, were the director and manager, respectively, of a money exchange company, involved in funding the sleeper cell.

FIA officials informed the court that information about the arrested men's accomplices had been dispatched to all the country's airports.

The accused were arrested from Civic Centre, Liaquatabad and Khalid Bin Waleed Road and weapons, laptops and mobile phones were confiscated from their possession, they added.

The court handed over the accused to FIA for seven-day physical remand.