Three more Ansar-ul-Shariah activists arrested
Two members of banned outfit were apprehended from Tando Adam and one from Karachi on Friday.
KARACHI (Dunya News) – The law enforcement agencies carried out an operation in Tando Adam on Friday and arrested two persons for having links with the banned Ansar-ul-Shariah, Dunya News reported.
Sources said that the operation was conducted on the information gathered from under custody Ansar-ul-Shariah activist Prof. Mushtaq.
The law enforcement agencies also apprehended another Ansar-ul-Shariah member, Saqib, from Kehkashan Homes area of Hassan Colony in Karachi. The arrestede person was shifted to some undisclosed location for further investigation.
Earlier, Intelligence agencies have allegedly found four women including one doctor involved with the militant outfit Ansar-ul-Shariah.
In a telling revelation, women have also been found to be involved in the newly found militant outfit Ansar-ul-Shariah in Karachi. According to sources, two of the women are students of a private university in Karachi and both of these students were in contact with a prime suspect.
The security personnel have arrested a police officer for facilitating militants and an alleged terrorist of Ansar-al-Shariah, who works at a marble factory, from Karachi’s Nazimabad area.
Intelligence agencies also raided various locations in Multan and arrested Talha Ansari, an alleged fugitive terrorist of Ansar-al-Shariah. Ansari is a close aide of Abdul Karim Sarosh Siddiqui, a central commander of the outfit and the mastermind of the attack on Izharul Hassan.
On the other hand, a professor at University of Karachi, Mushtaq was detained in Quetta whereas Mufti Habib was apprehended from Pashin.
On Wednesday, Ansar-al-Shariah’s head Doctor Abdullah Hashmi made some shocking revelation and admitted that they started target killing of police to prove a point.
Let it be known that Ansar-al-Shariah consists of highly educated boys of institutions like University of Karachi, NED University of Engineering and Technology, and Dawood University of Engineering and Technology.
Dr Abdullah also confessed that his group has been trained in Afghanistan. The suspect identified as Hassaan who got killed while attempting Khawaja Izharul Hassan’s assassination was 27 years old, he said. Hassaan aka Waleed was a teacher at Dawood University and his salary was Rs45000, he added.
Abdullah Hashmi further told that Hassaan used to give half of his money to the outfit, and half to his family.
