Claims he had been planning assaults, making bombs at a home in Frontier Colony. PHOTO: EXPRESS/FILE
KARACHI: A suspected terrorist, allegedly belonging to the banned outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), was arrested by the Counter Terrorism Division (CTD) in Karachi on Friday.
Hand grenades and different weapons had been seized from his possession.
CTD Operation SP Malik Altaf revealed that the arrested suspect, Jan Alam, had taken up residence in a rented home in Karachi’s Frontier Colony, the place he had been planning terrorist actions and making bombs.
He additional said that Alam had been concerned in two bomb blasts within the metropolis, one on the Imambargah Azakhana-e-Kosar close to Mominabad police station in 2013 and a hand grenade assault on the identical police station in 2016.
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Altaf disclosed that Alam had additionally left a bike crammed with explosives close to Aisha Manzil in 2013, whereas being concerned in assaults on Inspector Shafiq Tanoli, DSP Bahauddin Babar and Awami Nationwide Celebration (ANP) chief Bashir Jan in addition to a blast on the grave of ANP’s Ameer Sardar Ali in 2014. Alam was additionally allegedly concerned within the murders of a number of police officers and ANP leaders, he added.
In accordance with the CTD officer, legislation enforcement companies had been trying to find Alam for a number of years. He added that Alam had been educated in Afghanistan and was a commander of TTP’s Mullah Fazalullah group after his predecessor Sher Bahadur was killed.
He said that Alam was an skilled in making pressure-cooker and bike bombs, including that he had confessed to a number of crimes, together with extortion, throughout preliminary investigations.
CTD officers mentioned that additional interrogation of the suspect was being carried out.
