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KARACHI: The Department of Fight against Terrorism (CTD) suspects that al-Qaeda's ban on the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) is "regrouping" in the city to carry out terrorist attacks, emerged Monday.<\/p>\n
The CTD also claimed to have busted two other teams whose members had been actively involved in sectarian killings and police killings.<\/p>\n
"We have received reports that six" unhappy "AQIS militants recently arrived in Karachi from Afghanistan and are trying to activate their sleeping cell," said anti-terrorist official Raja Umar Khattab.<\/p>\n
The CTD official believed it was a dissident group of AQIS that included members from different communities that belonged to Karachi and had gone to Afghanistan. According to reports, they had developed differences with their leadership, partly because they did not use their "services" for a considerable period of time, and now they had returned to Karachi.<\/p>\n
\nSix militants have recently returned to Karachi from Afghanistan<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Law enforcement officials were making concerted efforts to destroy this emerging cell and the CTD official expected them to be "neutralized" before they could carry out any act of terror.<\/p>\n
"Eye to eye killings"<\/h2>\n
Khattab, who heads the Transnational Group on Intelligence against Terrorism (TTIG) of the CTD, suggested that, except for two or three incidents, selective killings had declined significantly in the metropolis.<\/p>\n
However, he admitted that there was sectarian violence in the city and that one or two incidents of selective killings had occurred. "But sectarian violence is mostly eye-to-eye murders," he added.<\/p>\n
He claimed that the law enforcement officers had annihilated two groups, one led by Lashkar-i-Jhangvi militants and the other belonging to outlaws Sipah-i-Mohammad Pakistan (SMP), involved in sectarian killings.<\/p>\n
The militant of LJ M. Mumtaz aka Firaun along with his accomplice Ahmed Khan aka Munna had escaped from the central prison in Karachi in June 2017.<\/p>\n
He was involved in the selective killing of 57 people, including members of the Shiite community and the police. He was arrested in 2013 and charged in 32 cases.<\/p>\n
He returned to the city to carry out murders after living hidden for some time. According to reports, his accomplice Khan lives in Afghanistan now.<\/p>\n
"In addition to the sectarian killings, this band was also involved in recent killings of police in the city of Orangi," the official said.<\/p>\n
The CTD and other law enforcement officers carried out a joint operation in Balochistan in which Firaun was killed along with his accomplices. His various accomplices were arrested in Karachi.<\/p>\n
The CTD official, Khattab, said six suspects belonging to the SMP were arrested after the March 22 attack on the prominent religious scholar Mufti Taqi Usmani in Gulshan-i-Iqbal in which his three assistants died.<\/p>\n
He said his money trail was also tracked and it turned out that they obtained instructions and funds from abroad.<\/p>\n
No arrest in the case of Taqi Usmani attack<\/strong><\/p>\n
The CTD official admitted that the gang behind the deadly attack on Mufti Taqi Usmani had so far not been arrested.<\/p>\n
He said the attack on the religious scholar was partly motivated by sectarian considerations.<\/p>\n
He said that the same group that had attacked banned Ahle Sunnat chief Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) Aurangzeb Farooqi in Korangi in 2013 had carried out the attack on Taqi Usmani in Gulshan.<\/p>\n
"That group is still impossible to track," he said.<\/p>\n
Commenting on the murder of Dr. Haider Askari, who was shot dead on August 30 in Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Khattab said it was probably related to sectarian violence.<\/p>\n
He noted that at some point the unknown criminals had sent two bullets to his house apparently to threaten him, but without making any demands.<\/p>\n
However, he said it was not necessary for the LJ to be behind the murder, as AQIS and other militant groups also carry out sectarian killings.<\/p>\n
"The ability of AQIS to carry out FDI explosions decreased"<\/h2>\n
Regarding a failed bomb attack in Quaidabad on the same day, the CTD official said they were focusing on the participation of jihadist and insurgent nationalist groups.<\/p>\n
He suspected the participation of jihadist elements when the modus operandi coincided with theirs. He was apparently destined to attack the police when a police cell phone was standing at the scene of the failed attack, he added.<\/p>\n
He said that some experience was required to prepare a bicycle loaded with explosives. Preparing a vehicle with explosives meant they also had a hiding place in the city, he added.<\/p>\n
He recalled that in 2016 two active members of AQIS were killed by the CTD in a meeting in Gadap. "They were experts in the manufacture of bombs and, since then, the ability of AQIS to carry out explosions of improvised explosive devices (FDI) had diminished."<\/p>\n
It was investigating whether AQIS or any other militant group was involved in the Quaidabad incident on August 30, he said.<\/p>\n
He said that AQIS and other "sleeping cells" equipment existed in the city, but that they could not carry out any important act of terrorism, since their "capacity and funds have diminished."<\/p>\n
In addition, they faced difficulties in returning to Pakistan across the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan due to recent fences.<\/p>\n
"The situation is not conducive in the border area between Pakistan and Afghanistan due to the fence," he said, adding: "They were not in a position to carry out an important terrorist act."<\/p>\n
Regarding the potential threat of the militant group of the Islamic State, he said that IS had mainly preferred suicide attacks or mass killings. The group sent suicide bombers to Pakistan from Afghanistan and was behind the main suicide attacks in Balochistan and in Upper Sindh.<\/p>\n
However, after the Safoora bus butcher shop in May 2016 in which 43 members of the Ismaili Shiite community died, the IS was not found involved in any major acts of terrorism in Karachi, he added.<\/p>\n
Posted on Dawn, October 15, 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/pre>\n<\/pre>\n
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