Deobandi Lashkar-e-Jhangvi terrorists involved in policemen killing, police says

Investigators have disclosed that Lashkar-e-Jhangvi militants who escaped from prison were involved in policemen’s killing in Karachi.
Notably, police held outlawed Deobandi takfiri terror outfit LeJ aka LJ, a subsidiary of ASWJ responsible for target killing.

Most importantly, police found LeJ terrorists behind last month’s targeted killing of two policemen of the Sindh Reserve Police in an Orangi Town area.

Further SSP East Karachi police shared details. He said  that two LeJ militants, had escaped from prison in 2017.

On June 17, four assailants gunned down constables Ahmed Ali and Allah Dino in Mominabad.

Furthermore, Police have arrested a woman and a man for facilitating the June 17 attack.

SSP-East Azfar Mahesar said Sheikh Mumtaz alias Firoun-led group of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi killed the two policemen.

Mumtaz alias Firoun and Ahmed Khan alias Munna were facing trial in various terrorism cases. They managed to escape from the judicial complex of the Karachi central prison on June 14, 2017.

However, SSP Mahesar said police had arrested two of their facilitators, including a woman.

The Soldier Bazaar police and a civilian intelligence agency in a joint action apprehended two facilitators. They too belong to outlawed LeJ and police recovered two pistols and two grenades from them.

Also, he identified the suspects as Rashid and Sakeena Naz.
The SSP said that they also recovered the motorbike used in the attack.

The police said Mumtaz and Ahmed had fled to Afghanistan following their escape from prison and had returned recently.

He had been in hiding in Gulshan-e-Zia Orangi Town at the house of his accomplice Afroz, for the last over five months. However, SSP said, he has changed his appearance.

Counter-Terrorism Department had arrested Afroz who lodged in Sukkur prison at present.

When they returned to Karachi, Firoun’s younger brother, Muqeem alias Shan, had arranged their stay. But, then he stayed at the house of held Sakeena Naz, whose brother, Zainul Abidin, also a member of an alleged team of target killers.

She also helped investigators identify two others in the CCTV footage of the scene of killing of policemen. She identified them as Mamnoon alias Sameer.

Rashid, a close aide used to get bhatta (extortion) from traders and others on the instructions of Mumtaz aka Firoun.

He also used to arrange meetings of family members with Mumtaz at the Karachi central prison before his escape.

SSP said other suspects identified as Areeb and Ahmed Ali also part of the LeJ’s hitmen’s team. Mumtaz Firoun was the district West ‘chief’ of the banned LeJ.

Siraj, ax-husband of Sakeena also involved in the killings of the two constables.

The police also released pictures of the members and facilitators of the LJ’s hitmen’s team. Police has sought cooperation of the public for their arrest.

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