Suspected terrorist nabbed, hand grenades seized
Qari Inayat was arrested, near Mobeen Mosque, in a raid which was jointly conducted by Islamabad Police and Crime Investigation Department (CID) personnel.
Police said that Inayat was wanted in different cases and two First Information Reports had already been registered against him.
“One was registered on August 26, 2011 at the Aabpara Police Station and the other one was registered with the Secretariat police,” said an official.
A police source said that Inayat has close links with Sardar Ali Khan Khattak, the man accused of planning an attack on the occasion of Youm-ul-Quds in federal capital.
The official further said, “On Monday, Inayat was going to meet with the wife of Sardar Khattak in G-6/1 and on a tip off, police raided the place and arrested him.” He was shifted to an undisclosed location for further investigations.
Khattak was earlier arrested from the capital on August 31 and police had recovered a suicide jacket from his house. He was serving as a naib qasid (clerk) in the Finance Division and had been on leave for the last two years.
“Khattak is the ring leader of the terrorist cell that had allegedly planned to target a high-profile government installation in the city,” said the official.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 11th, 2011.
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