Raid at central jail in Karachi, mobile phone used to plan attack on judge

[Devil Soul]

KARACHI: Police and Rangers conducted a raid at the Central Jail in Karachi and found the mobile phone allegedly used to plan the attack targeting a senior judge in the city three days ago, reported Express News on Saturday.
The raid was conducted on the basis of a tip-off given by an inmate in the prison.
Two prisoners have been taken into custody to an unknown location by the Rangers for investigation. During the search operation, Rangers found a number of mobile phones, laptops, internet devices, drugs and weapons in possession of the prisoners.
The laptops have been handed to data experts for finding useful and related information.
According to the Rangers, numbers found on the phones seized from four Lashkar-e-Jhangvi terrorists will aid in finding linked terrorists operating from outside jail from areas such as Mangho Pir and Sohrab Goth.
All jail authorities were barred from the building as the rangers took control of the search operation.
Justice Maqbool Baqar was travelling to the Sindh High Court around 8.27am on June 26, when the militants remotely triggered an improvised explosive device (IED) planted on a motorcycle. The subsequent blast destroyed Justice Baqar’s Honda Civic, two police vans and two Rangers motorcycles.
Walls of the nearby houses were damaged and windows of several buildings in the neighbourhood were shattered by the thud of the blast. The attack took place near an area where important government buildings – including Sindh High Court, Sindh Assembly and Sindh Secretariat – are located.
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed that the attack was carried out by its men.
CM Sindh meets DG Major General
Chief Minister Sindh Qaim Ali Shah met DG Major General Rizwan Akhtar on Saturday to discuss the current situation of Karachi following the raid on Karachi Central Jail.
During the meeting, Akhtar submitted a detailed report on the ongoing targeted operations in different areas of Karachi and the arrests made in the process. The report also included details about the raid operation carried out in Karachi Central Jail.
Raid at central jail in Karachi, mobile phone used to plan attack on judge found – The Express Tribune

 

[pak-marine]

Rangers found a number of mobile phones, laptops, internet devices, drugs and weapons in possession of the prisoners

^^ wow .. how exactly these items got there needs to be investigated

 

[Haseebullah]

During the search operation, Rangers found a number of mobile phones, laptops, internet devices, drugs and weapons in possession of the prisoners.

hahahahahaha.
These should tell the story of how they got this **** in. We might make a season more popular than Prison Break.

 

[TalibanSwatter]

KARACHI: Police and Rangers conducted a raid at the Central Jail in Karachi and found the mobile phone allegedly used to plan the attack targeting a senior judge in the city three days ago, reported Express News on Saturday.

The raid was conducted on the basis of a tip-off given by an inmate in the prison.

Two prisoners have been taken into custody to an unknown location by the Rangers for investigation. During the search operation, Rangers found a number of mobile phones, laptops, internet devices, drugs and weapons in possession of the prisoners.

The laptops have been handed to data experts for finding useful and related information.

According to the Rangers, numbers found on the phones seized from four Lashkar-e-Jhangvi terrorists will aid in finding linked terrorists operating from outside jail from areas such as Mangho Pir and Sohrab Goth.

All jail authorities were barred from the building as the rangers took control of the search operation.

Justice Maqbool Baqar was travelling to the Sindh High Court around 8.27am on June 26, when the militants remotely triggered an improvised explosive device (IED) planted on a motorcycle. The subsequent blast destroyed Justice Baqar’s Honda Civic, two police vans and two Rangers motorcycles.

Walls of the nearby houses were damaged and windows of several buildings in the neighbourhood were shattered by the thud of the blast. The attack took place near an area where important government buildings – including Sindh High Court, Sindh Assembly and Sindh Secretariat – are located.
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed that the attack was carried out by its men.

The TTP claim makes perfect sense since LeJ has been operating under the TTP umbrella for many years. Some of the most high profile TTP attacks in the past such as the ones on GHQ, and the Parade Lane mosque used LeJ militants.

It is disturbing to note the implied complicity of the jail authorities in providing cell phones to the LeJ terrorists inside the jail.

 

[TalibanSwatter]

DAWN

KARACHI: A heavy contingent of Rangers carried out a major search operation at the Karachi Central Jail on Saturday, three days after a deadly attack on a senior judge in the city.

Prison officials told Dawn.com that a large number of mobile phones, laptops and internet devices were recovered from prison cells during the operation by the paramilitary force.

“Rangers believe the attack on Justice Baqar’s convoy was carried out from inside the prison cells with the help of mobile devices,” said a senior prison official, requesting not to be named since he was not authorised to speak to the media.

The Rangers force also found a cellular device which they believe was used directly in the attack on Sindh High Court judge Justice Maqbool Baqar.

Nine people were killed in the bomb attack on the convoy of the senior high court judge on Wednesday. The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) had claimed responsibility for the attack, claiming Justice Baqar, a member of the Shia community, was targeted due to his “anti-Taliban and anti-Mujahideen decisions”.

The jurist had served as the administrative judge of the anti-terrorism courts in Karachi and initially heard terrorism cases in this capacity.

The judge was also believed to be on Lashkar-i-Jhangvi’s hit list while a suspect arrested in Karachi last year told police that Maqbool Baqar was among his intended targets.

Pakistani Taliban and Lashkar-i-Jhangvi terrorists operating in Karachi are believed to have combined forces to carry out attacks on high-profile targets in the city.

Saturday’s search operation by Ranger’s personnel was carried out on a tip-off by an inmate at the central prison.

Following the search operation, security officials also questioned a member of outlawed Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, named as Farhan, who is said to be a key suspect in the attack on Justice Maqbool Baqar.

In January last year, two members of the Lashkar-i-Jhangvi were arrested by a team led by SP Crime Investigation Department (CID) Mazhar Mashwani.

Both men, Azeem Sheikh and Farhan, had confessed to having planned an attack on Justice Baqar.

They also confessed planning attacks on senior CID official, SSP Chaudhry Aslam Khan, and Superintendent Police North Nazimabad, Khurram Warris.

Azeem Sheikh was released on June 20 on bail this year. Justice Baqar was attacked at Karachi’s Burnes Road area on June 26, a few days after his release.

Rangers also grilled two other key members of the Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, Mohammad Ajmal alias Akram Lahori and Atta Mohammad.

Several contact numbers of key suspects involved in carrying out the attack on the SHC judge were also found in the mobile phones.

Deputy Superintendent of Central Jail, Nazeer Shah, however, called the operation on Saturday “a routine search.”

Prison officials, however, confirmed that over 200 Rangers personnel conducted a thorough search of the prison barracks.

The local police was kept only as backup force in the operation, said one official.

 

[Major Sam]

wow...... its like technical research centers are working in jail .. under full protection......

 

[Major Sam]