CTD foils bid to attack foreign restaurant in Karachi
Pakistan
The CTD recovered an IED remote control bomb from the possession of the arrested terrorist.
KARACHI (Dunya News) - The Sindh Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Monday foiled a terrorist attack on a foreign restaurant located in Clifton area of Karachi and arrested an alleged terrorist affiliated with a proscribed nationalist group.
According to a CTD spokesman, a terrorist identified as Mumtaz Ali belonging to the banned Sindh Revolutionary Army (SRA) was arrested when he was going to plant an IED at a foreign restaurant located in Clifton Block-2.
The CTD recovered an IED remote control bomb from the possession of the arrested terrorist.
During initial interrogation, the arrested terrorist revealed that he had been assigned two targets by his group head namely Asghar Shah alias Sajjad Shah, to carry out blasts at the foreign restaurant and a project in Ibrahim Hyderi where foreign nationals were working.
The CTD spokesman said a case had been registered and further investigation was undersway.
