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`Radical` Pak brigadier planned to bomb GHQ: Rpt
Brig Ali Khan was arrested last year on suspicion of having contacts with the Hizb-ut-Tahrir.
Islamabad: A Pakistan Army brigadier,
currently facing court martial for alleged links with the
banned Hizb-ut-Tahrir, had conspired with an air force pilot
to bomb the General Headquarters with a F-16 jet during a
conference of top commanders.
Brig Ali Khan was arrested last year on suspicion of having contacts with the Hizb-ut-Tahrir.
He has been accused of trying to stage a rebellion against the government and planning an attack on the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi.
His family has denied the charges. Major Suhail Akbar, a prosecution witness, said in his statement that Khan and some members of Hizb-ut-Tahrir had told him that an F-16 combat jet would be used to target the army`s headquarters during a conference of corps or formation commanders.
Akbar said in his written statement to a military court that a F-16 pilot at a military airbase near Rawalpindi was persuaded to carry out the attack.
Akbar further said Khan also had plans to target an "American-controlled airbase" in Pakistan and installations of the Blackwater security company with an F-16, BBC Urdu reported. Akbar admitted that he had been meeting Hizb-ut-Tahrir members for seven years. He claimed Khan was present at a meeting of Hizb-ut-Tahrir members in July 2010.
"I knew for the first time in the same meeting that the Hizb-ut-Tahrir members and Brigadier Ali want to topple the political government and dislodge the military leadership and to take over the country," Akbar said in his statement.
PTI
Brig Ali Khan was arrested last year on suspicion of having contacts with the Hizb-ut-Tahrir.
He has been accused of trying to stage a rebellion against the government and planning an attack on the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi.
His family has denied the charges. Major Suhail Akbar, a prosecution witness, said in his statement that Khan and some members of Hizb-ut-Tahrir had told him that an F-16 combat jet would be used to target the army`s headquarters during a conference of corps or formation commanders.
Akbar said in his written statement to a military court that a F-16 pilot at a military airbase near Rawalpindi was persuaded to carry out the attack.
Akbar further said Khan also had plans to target an "American-controlled airbase" in Pakistan and installations of the Blackwater security company with an F-16, BBC Urdu reported. Akbar admitted that he had been meeting Hizb-ut-Tahrir members for seven years. He claimed Khan was present at a meeting of Hizb-ut-Tahrir members in July 2010.
"I knew for the first time in the same meeting that the Hizb-ut-Tahrir members and Brigadier Ali want to topple the political government and dislodge the military leadership and to take over the country," Akbar said in his statement.
PTI