Karachi: Four suspected militants along
with huge cache of arms and ammunitions were on Tuesday arrested
during a sting operation from a Pashtun dominated area in
Pakistan's commercial capital.
The arrests come a day after police claimed to have
exchanged fire and foiled a bid by three Burqa clad terrorists
to enter and carry out a subversive operation in one of the
country’s biggest oil terminal and storage depot in Kemari
Karachi.
Senior police officials said that the four arrested
persons included a militant wanted for planning and carrying
out attacks on security forces in Swat.
"One of them is Ziaullah Swati has been involved in
subversive and terrorist activities in Swat and has close
links with the Taliban," Senior superintendent of police,
Fayyaz Khan said.
He said the four arrested men from whom a large cache
of ammunition and explosives and suicide jackets were also
recovered were also behind a string of bank robberies in Swat
and Karachi.
The outlawed Taliban-e-Tehreek is widely believed to
be behind several bank robberies in Karachi and Karachi and in
kidnapping for ransom case of businessmen and traders from the
urban area to raise funds for their subversive activities.
In another incident the police also recovered arms and
ammunition and two suicide jackets from a drain near the
police training centre in Saeedabad area.
The arms, ammunition and suicide jackets were in
ladies purses and bags and are believed to have been dumped by
the three Burqa clad militants who escaped after exchange of
fire near the Kemari Oil terminal.
In third incident today, police recovered huge catch
consisting of arms and ammunition including two suicide
jackets from rain drain near Saeedabad Police Training Centre.
"It is a significant catch as we have also recovered
nine rocket launchers, five anti-tank rocket, seven hand
grenades, a Kalashnikov and two cloaks," a police official
said.
He said the bomb disposal squad unit had been called
to the place to neutralise the explosives.
Bureau Report
First Published: Tuesday, September 15, 2009, 20:27