14 Militants killed in Encounter were in Custody of agencies

[Musafir117]

LAHORE: Al Qaeda leader Bilal Lateef alias Yasir Punjabi and 13 other suspected militants who were killed in two ‘encounters’ with the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of police in Multan and Muzaffargarh this week had been in the custody of law enforcement agencies for the past four months, sources said on Friday.

CTD personnel gunned down eight suspects in Nawabpur, Multan, during a shootout late on Wednesday night and six, including Yasir Punjabi, in Mondka Chowk, Muzaffargarh, in the early hours of Friday morning.

A source in an intelligence agency told Dawn on Friday that the suspected terrorists were arrested by the Bahawalpur CTD in joint operations with the Military Intelligence (MI) and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) from different parts of Punjab during winter.

The sources claimed that Yasir Punjabi, a resident of Lahore, was head of the Punjab chapter of Al Qaeda and the interior ministry had proposed a reward of Rs1 million on his head. His name was also listed in the police’s Red Book.

Yasir Punjabi and his associates were alleged to be involved in masterminding, facilitating, training, provision of logistics and reconnaissance of targets in different parts of the country.

Yasir Punjabi was wanted in several terrorist attacks on police installations like the CIA headquarters, police rest house and Special Branch buildings in Gujranwala. He was involved in attacking Ahmadis’ worship places in Lahore in 2010 in which more than 90 people were killed.

Yasir Punjabi and his associates were also involved in targeted killing of police officers in Uch Sharif, Muzaffargarh, D.G. Khan and Layyah, and in the assassination of Brig Fazal Qadri. They were also blamed for attacking a religious gathering in Sargodha in September 2014.

The sources further contended that the suspects were interrogated by the CTD, MI and ISI to their satisfaction.

Inspector General of Police Mushtaq Sukhera claimed on Friday that all the heads of terrorist organisations in south Punjab had been eliminated.

He termed the killing of Yasir Punjabi and his associates an important development in the operation against terrorism.

Published in Dawn, May 21st, 2016
http://www.dawn.com/news/1259737/14-militants-killed-in-encounters-were-in-custody-of-agencies
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Few dogs went to hell but why we need such Encounters which are open secret? Why for military courts for? Just a speedy trial and hang them straight. @Irfan Baloch @Pakistani Exile @Zibago @Zarvan @Onion Spring and other thoughts please.

 

[Zibago]

LAHORE: Al Qaeda leader Bilal Lateef alias Yasir Punjabi and 13 other suspected militants who were killed in two ‘encounters’ with the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of police in Multan and Muzaffargarh this week had been in the custody of law enforcement agencies for the past four months, sources said on Friday.

CTD personnel gunned down eight suspects in Nawabpur, Multan, during a shootout late on Wednesday night and six, including Yasir Punjabi, in Mondka Chowk, Muzaffargarh, in the early hours of Friday morning.

A source in an intelligence agency told Dawn on Friday that the suspected terrorists were arrested by the Bahawalpur CTD in joint operations with the Military Intelligence (MI) and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) from different parts of Punjab during winter.

The sources claimed that Yasir Punjabi, a resident of Lahore, was head of the Punjab chapter of Al Qaeda and the interior ministry had proposed a reward of Rs1 million on his head. His name was also listed in the police’s Red Book.

Yasir Punjabi and his associates were alleged to be involved in masterminding, facilitating, training, provision of logistics and reconnaissance of targets in different parts of the country.

Yasir Punjabi was wanted in several terrorist attacks on police installations like the CIA headquarters, police rest house and Special Branch buildings in Gujranwala. He was involved in attacking Ahmadis’ worship places in Lahore in 2010 in which more than 90 people were killed.

Yasir Punjabi and his associates were also involved in targeted killing of police officers in Uch Sharif, Muzaffargarh, D.G. Khan and Layyah, and in the assassination of Brig Fazal Qadri. They were also blamed for attacking a religious gathering in Sargodha in September 2014.

The sources further contended that the suspects were interrogated by the CTD, MI and ISI to their satisfaction.

Inspector General of Police Mushtaq Sukhera claimed on Friday that all the heads of terrorist organisations in south Punjab had been eliminated.

He termed the killing of Yasir Punjabi and his associates an important development in the operation against terrorism.

Published in Dawn, May 21st, 2016
http://www.dawn.com/news/1259737/14-militants-killed-in-encounters-were-in-custody-of-agencies
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Few dogs went to hell but why we need such Encounters which are open secret? Why for military courts for? Just a speedy trial and hang them straight. @Irfan Baloch @Pakistani Exile @Zibago @Zarvan @Onion Spring and other thoughts please.

As much as i hate them they need to be captyred alive who knows how many of their buddies are still living in sleeper cells

 

[for truth]

sounds like Pakistan's own fake encounter case

but as long as they are terrorists, I support any sort of encounter.

 

[JOEY TRIBIANI]

Chotu gang se pitney k baad shehbaz police apni harkatain dekhatey huey ..

 

[ali_raza]

fake encounter is norm now.last month there was a shooting near our land and they said terrorist died.and my men working on the farm told me there was no shooting just they dumped bodies and creat a drama..cos our land was distant from city so a perfect spot

 

[Sparkle229]

As long as they are terrorists it does not really matter

 

[for truth]

fake encounter is norm now.last month there was a shooting near our land and they said terrorist died.and my men working on the farm told me there was no shooting just they dumped bodies and creat a drama..cos our land was distant from city so a perfect spot

Why don't you present this case to the police or to the court or the media?

 

[Pakistani E]

You know this only solves the problem in the short term. Don't get me wrong, I won't shed a single tear for these animals, but one must look at the larger picture. The fact that our security agencies have to deal with enemies of the state through extra judicial methods proves that there is a fundamental problem within the judicial system of our nation. Our state needs a thorough reformation at this level to be able to function properly in the near future to deliver a comprehensive system of arrest, trial and sentencing. Without it, we will have to continue to rely on the army etc to deal with the aftermath of a security challenge, instead of nipping it in the bud with the arrest and sentencing of abetters, facilitators and supporters of these terrorists.

We need to identify whether if the problem is at a prosecution level or something within the judicial level where the judges etc are either afraid to charge these terrorists or are abetting them. Both of these issues present serious problems that must be dealt with sooner rather than later, or we will continue to rely on extra judicial killings while the society itself will continue to be full of security issues that will only increase. We see this with extremists proclaiming how ineffective our justice system, thereby giving the extremists and terrorists a recruiting point wherein they are offering an alternative justice system that is both quick, cost effective and delivers direct justice. I have had the misfortune of talking to some fellows who were radicalised by extremists who gave them this precise reason for taking up arms against the state of Pakistan.

Again, I reiterate I am not sad for this loss of life, but I would like to see reform within the judiciary, it seems like the only pillar of the state that is working effectively to deal with terrorists is the armed forces, rest of the so called pillars, including government, judiciary etc, seem to busy with their usual business of making bucks and losing or gaining power.

 

[ali_raza]

Why don't you present this case to the police or to the court or the media?

hhhhh u kidding me.why should i?? what have i lost?

 

[Benign Persona]

khas kam jahan pak

 

[Musafir117]

You know this only solves the problem in the short term. Don't get me wrong, I won't shed a single tear for these animals, but one must look at the larger picture. The fact that our security agencies have to deal with enemies of the state through extra judicial methods proves that there is a fundamental problem within the judicial system of our nation. Our state needs a thorough reformation at this level to be able to function properly in the near future to deliver a comprehensive system of arrest, trial and sentencing. Without it, we will have to continue to rely on the army etc to deal with the aftermath of a security challenge, instead of nipping it in the bud with the arrest and sentencing of abetters, facilitators and supporters of these terrorists.

We need to identify whether if the problem is at a prosecution level or something within the judicial level where the judges etc are either afraid to charge these terrorists or are abetting them. Both of these issues present serious problems that must be dealt with sooner rather than later, or we will continue to rely on extra judicial killings while the society itself will continue to be full of security issues that will only increase. We see this with extremists proclaiming how ineffective our justice system, thereby giving the extremists and terrorists a recruiting point wherein they are offering an alternative justice system that is both quick, cost effective and delivers direct justice. I have had the misfortune of talking to some fellows who were radicalised by extremists who gave them this precise reason for taking up arms against the state of Pakistan.

Again, I reiterate I am not sad for this loss of life, but I would like to see reform within the judiciary, it seems like the only pillar of the state that is working effectively to deal with terrorists is the armed forces, rest of the so called pillars, including government, judiciary etc, seem to busy with their usual business of making bucks and losing or gaining power.

There are always be few factors in staged encounters kill coz the judicial system weak and took long to reach on verdict another is there might be no strong evidences to put up for a trial and then another reason to save some other bad Axxes i.e assets or facilators and killing covered the bitter truth.
But again my questions remain unanswered.

 

[for truth]

hhhhh u kidding me.why should i?? what have i lost?

man, you just came to know about a incident were the bodies were dumped and those who dumped lied about it as a "encounter". Isn't this wrong to begin with? where is the law?

 

[ali_raza]

man, you just came to know about a incident were the bodies were dumped and those who dumped lied about it as a "encounter". Isn't this wrong to begin with? where is the law?

thats how things work in thispart of the world

 

[for truth]

thats how things work in thispart of the world

desperate times call for desperate measures.

 

[Skywalker]

14 less scums in Pakistan now.