The arm supplier for banned groups, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Peoples Amn Committee (PAC) in Karachi, was apprehended by the Crime Investigation Department’s (CID) Anti Extremist Cell (AEC) on Friday.
According to the authorities, a huge cache of rockets, hand grenades, arms and ammunitions were also seized which were supposed to be delivered to the two groups to target police officials.
The AEC chief, SSP Chaudhry Aslam Khan, told the media at the CID Garden office that the suspect identified as Rehmanullah was arrested during a raid conducted at Mawach Goth. However, his companion Soba Khan managed to escape.
Khan said that the arrested man is associated with the TTP.
The AEC chief said that the arrest was a result of the information received by the three Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) members who were arrested a couple of days ago from Sher Shah.
“No one has seized as many weapons in Karachi’s history as the ones found today,” Khan told The Express Tribune.
He said that the arrests proved that the PAC, TTP, BLA and other terror groups have strong links with each other and are working against the state.
During the initial interrogation, the accused allegedly confessed that he and his companions, namely Soba Khan, Arbela, Shakoor, Noorullah and Haji Sharang, have been smuggling arms and ammunitions to the TTP and PAC for the last two years from Balochistan via intercity buses. The weapons were kept at their hideouts and later, they delivered them to the TTP and PAC via Suzuki pickups.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 12th, 2012.
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