Daesh suicide bomber studied in a Deobandi seminary in Karachi

The young Deobandi takfiri who Perpetrated suicide bombing at a Mastung election rally on July 13 and killed nearly 150 people, including Balochistan Awami Party candidate Siraj Raisani, was a student at a Deobandi seminary in Karachi before being shifted to Afghanistan along with his family, where he got militancy training. The suicide bomber has been identified by authorities as Hafeez Abbasi.

Sources in the Sindh police’s Counter-Terrorism Department said that their counterparts in Balochistan had shared with them a preliminary report of the suicide explosion and they carried out further work here.
The CTD-Quetta had provided fingerprints of an unclaimed body to the CTD-Sindh to match it with the record of the National Database and Registration Authority. It transpired that the suicide bomber was a resident of Gharibabad Mohalla in Dhabeji, Thatta.
A special CTD team was immediately sent there on July 17 and to their utter surprise, his father, Mohammed Nawaz, without any hesitation told them that his son Hafeez had been shifted to Afghanistan’s Spin Boldak area.
Three sisters, two brothers living in Afghanistan
Mr Nawaz, who is living with another son, Haq Nawaz, in Thatta also told the CTD team that not only Hafeez but his wife, his two other sons and three daughters had also been shifted to Afghanistan.
The family originally hailed from Molia village in Abbottabad.
They said that Abbasi had studied at a Deobandi seminary in Shah Faisal Colony for three years where he adopted the path toward militancy. His certain colleagues at the Deobandi seminary were instrumental in motivating him towards militancy and they sent him to Afghanistan.
The sources disclosed that as per information provided by his father, his three daughters, who had been shifted to Afghanistan, were ‘Alima’ (female religious scholars) and two of them had married Daesh militants there.
His two more sons, Abdul Aziz and Abdul Shakoor, were also living in Afghanistan, they said, adding that Shakoor recently told his father that now “it’s his turn” to become a suicide bomber, said the sources.
Abbasi’s eldest sister was married and lived with her family in their hometown in Abbottabad.
The bomber’s father along with his son used to sell milk and vegetables in the Dhabeji area.
The CTD sources said that the father did not show any remorse or express any feeling of sadness when they informed him that his son had carried out a suicide attack in the Mastung rally.
Important arrests made
In Karachi and Thatta, the sources added that law enforcement agencies conducted raids and made “some important arrests”.
A CTD official feared that Abbasi’s younger brother Shakoor, who is a teenager, might carry out a terrorist attack.
The official, who wished not to be named, said that they had arrested some members of the Daesh network in Karachi.