Caught at last: Militant with Rs1m bounty arrested in Upper Dir

Suspect arrested from Sonai Darra at around 10am, shifted to an undisclosed location for interrogation

UPPER DIR:

A militant commander with a head money of Rs1 million was arrested on Thursday from the Sonai Darra area in Upper Dir, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

The Shahi Kot police had received an intelligence report about the presence of Abdur Rahim alias Raees in the area and set up checkpoints at different spots, Upper Dir district police officer (DPO) Israruddin Bacha said while talking to the media in Dir police lines.

The suspect was arrested from Sonai Darra at around 10am and was shifted to an undisclosed location for interrogation.

The DPO said the militant commander lived in the Kharu Nusrat Darra area, and was involved in five different terrorist attacks from Kunar, Afghanistan, to Pakistan including an attack on a check post jointly manned by police and Levies personnel in Shaltalo in June 2011.

Bacha added the government had announced a bounty of Rs1 million for the arrest of Rahim, 38, and his details had been published in newspapers. In attacks carried out by the commander, 28 security personnel, 16 policemen and 13 levies officials had been killed while 10 government schools, 15 shops, five houses and a mosque were destroyed.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 13^th, 2015.