Hizbut Tehreer’s local chief arrested in Karachi
Suspect was employed at K-Electric
Suspect was employed at K-Electric. PHOTO: ONLINE
KARACHI:
The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of the Sindh police claimed to have arrested the Karachi chief of the banned Hizbut Tehreer (HuT) during a raid in Gulshan-e-Iqbal on Friday.
The suspect, Siham Qamar, was working as a deputy general manager at K-Electric, said CTD Operation-I incharge SSP Usman Bajwa, addressing a press conference at his office in Police Headquarters, Garden, on Friday evening.
CTD arrests four suspects in Karachi
"Qamar is a mechanical engineer and had access to educational institutions where he was spotted regularly," said Bajwa. "He used to attend social gatherings of influential people and propagate his group's agenda."
According to Bajwa, Qamar was given the task of recruiting qualified students to HuT and used to help his arrested comrades get released.
This was the second such arrest of a high-profile HuT member in Karachi during the Karachi operation. Earlier, HuT senior member Owais Raheel, an IBA graduate who used to teach at Szabist, was arrested from Boat Basin in the first week of October.
Explosion averted: Bomb defused outside CTD office
Target killers caught
The CTD also arrested two alleged target killers, Munir Ahmed Gopang and Usman Ghani alias Gutka. Gopang, a member of the banned sectarian outfit, Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan's Khairpur chapter, was accused of attacking Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat's rally in Gambat in 2014 when a participant was killed.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 28th, 2015.
The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of the Sindh police claimed to have arrested the Karachi chief of the banned Hizbut Tehreer (HuT) during a raid in Gulshan-e-Iqbal on Friday.
The suspect, Siham Qamar, was working as a deputy general manager at K-Electric, said CTD Operation-I incharge SSP Usman Bajwa, addressing a press conference at his office in Police Headquarters, Garden, on Friday evening.
CTD arrests four suspects in Karachi
"Qamar is a mechanical engineer and had access to educational institutions where he was spotted regularly," said Bajwa. "He used to attend social gatherings of influential people and propagate his group's agenda."
According to Bajwa, Qamar was given the task of recruiting qualified students to HuT and used to help his arrested comrades get released.
This was the second such arrest of a high-profile HuT member in Karachi during the Karachi operation. Earlier, HuT senior member Owais Raheel, an IBA graduate who used to teach at Szabist, was arrested from Boat Basin in the first week of October.
Explosion averted: Bomb defused outside CTD office
Target killers caught
The CTD also arrested two alleged target killers, Munir Ahmed Gopang and Usman Ghani alias Gutka. Gopang, a member of the banned sectarian outfit, Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan's Khairpur chapter, was accused of attacking Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat's rally in Gambat in 2014 when a participant was killed.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 28th, 2015.