Rangers arrest 5 'RAW-affiliated al Qaeda terrorists’ in Karachi

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KARACHI: Pakistan Rangers on Wednesday claimed to have detained five al Qaeda terrorists working with India’s premier spy agency, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), from Karachi’s Mawach Goth area during an intelligence-based raid.

The militants who reportedly belong to the terrorist outfit’s Indian subcontinent branch were held as the paramilitary force conducted an IBO as part of the ongoing countrywide military operation, Radd-ul-Fasaad. “These terrorists belong to al Qaeda in the Indian subcontinent and they received training in Afghanistan,” said a press statement issued by the paramilitary Rangers.

Uzair Baloch taken into military custody: ISPR

The statement said the terrorists were running a terror network in the country with the collusion of RAW and NDS, the Indian and Afghan spy agencies. “We have recovered 8kg explosives, one suicide vest, four hand grenades, four ball bombs, three detonators with 20 meter detonator cord, four SMGs, two pistols, 50 SMG rounds and 15 pistol rounds from the possession of the accused,” the communiqué read.

Further, a laptop computer, extremist literature, maps and other equipment used to communicate with group members were also recovered following the raid. According to Rangers, the detained suspects were wanted in several terror-related offenses.

Source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1381325/rangers-arrest-5-raw-affiliated-al-qaeda-terrorists-karachi/

 

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ISLAMABAD —

Authorities in Pakistan said Wednesday that security forces in separate raids have captured a group of five senior militants working for al-Qaida and Islamic State terrorist networks out of Karachi.

The detainees included bomb-making experts, trained suicide bombers and an “al-Qaida recruiter" for Pakistan, said Colonel Qaisar Khan, a spokesman for the provincial paramilitary force called Rangers.

Security forces have also seized suicide vests, weapons and ammunition from their possession, he told reporters in Karachi. The militants, Khan said, have been plotting attacks on religious minorities, Rangers and police personnel in the port city, Pakistan's largest and commercial hub.

An initial probe has established the men’s “links and footprints with both al-Qaida and Daesh,” he added.

Some of the detainees received training in al-Qaida-run camps in North Waziristan and neighboring Afghanistan in 2013 before moving and basing themselves in Karachi, the spokesman asserted.

North and South Waziristan, part of the Federally Administered Trial Area (FATA)



Al-Qaida operatives have for years used volatile Pakistani areas, including the Waziristan tribal district, as their sanctuaries, though officials insist the terrorism infrastructure has been dismantled by sustained counterterrorism military operations.

Pakistani authorities deny an "organized" presence of IS in the country and allege that loyalists of the Middle East-based terrorist groups are staging attacks in Pakistan from sanctuaries inside “ungoverned” border areas of neighboring Afghanistan.

 

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Rangers arrest 5 'RAW-affiliated al Qaeda terrorists’ in Karachi
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1381325/rangers-arrest-5-raw-affiliated-al-qaeda-terrorists-karachi/
KARACHI:

Pakistan Rangers on Wednesday claimed to have detained five al Qaeda terrorists working with India’s premier spy agency, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), from Karachi’s Mawach Goth area during an intelligence-based raid.

The militants who reportedly belong to the terrorist outfit’s Indian subcontinent branch were held as the paramilitary force conducted an IBO as part of the ongoing countrywide military operation, Radd-ul-Fasaad. “These terrorists belong to al Qaeda in the Indian subcontinent and they received training in Afghanistan,” said a press statement issued by the paramilitary Rangers.

The statement said the terrorists were running a terror network in the country with the collusion of RAW and NDS, the Indian and Afghan spy agencies. “We have recovered 8kg explosives, one suicide vest, four hand grenades, four ball bombs, three detonators with 20 meter detonator cord, four SMGs, two pistols, 50 SMG rounds and 15 pistol rounds from the possession of the accused,” the communiqué read.

Further, a laptop computer, extremist literature, maps and other equipment used to communicate with group members were also recovered following the raid. According to Rangers, the detained suspects were wanted in several terror-related offenses.

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