KARACHI: The Sindh police executed
12 terrorists belonging to the forbidden al-Qaeda Indian Subcontinent (AQIS)
and Lashker-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) in two encounters in the Pipri and Gadap zones on
Monday.
The terrorists had
been working jointly and pointing law enforcement agencies in Karachi, said
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Rao Anwaar of Malir District.
The encounters,
which lasted several hours in a shanty town off the National Highway, occurred
during a raid on a hideout of the outlaws after police received
intelligence-based information that terrorists belonging to banned outfits had
gathered there, he said.
As the cops,
assisted by an intelligence agency, swooped on the hideout, the terrorists opened
haphazard fire at the police party and the attack was strike back.
The wounded were
shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) where they were marked
dead. Five of them were identified as Sohail alias Chasmatu, an AQIS commander
in Karachi, Khalil, Bilal, Talha and Abdul Salaam.
SSP Anwaar said
that during search of the hideout they found four pressure cooker bombs,
suicide jackets, detonating cords, five hand grenades, ball bearings, five
submachine guns, three 9mm pistols and hundreds of bullets.
The names of the four
terrorists are yet to be find out. Four 9mm pistols were said to have been
found on them.
SSP Anwaar said the
terrorists were involved in the murder of Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP)
Abdul Fateh Sangri, DSP Abdul Majeed Abbas, Jail Superintendent Zulfiqar Haider
and other police officials. Sohail Chasmatu was directly involved in the police
killings, he added.
The 9mm and other
pistols were sent to the Forensic Division for examination to establish if the
weapons were used for committing other killings in the city.
The cops also
recovered uniforms of various law enforcement departments. Further
investigations are under way.
In the meantime, a
key operative of the banned outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) was detained in Dera
Ghazi Khan on Monday. According to a source, the LeJ-allied militant Asif Chotu
was held after police launched a search operation in DG Khan.
Great Job done by Sindh Police
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