Safoora Goth attack: ‘Facilitator’ al Qaeda operative, says CTD
SHC conference pleas to recover 3 ‘exonerated’ suspects. PHOTO: FILE
KARACHI: The arch of a Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) sensitive a Sindh High Court on Monday that one of a ‘facilitators’ of a Safoora Goth attack, Naeem Sajid, is an al Qaeda user who is associated to a attack.
The CTD in-charge done a explanation in comments submitted to a justice in propinquity to petitions seeking a recover of 3 suspects who were reportedly clear of charges of facilitation in a Safoora Goth attack. Sajid is an arms play and a sequence numbers of a arms and ammunition used in a occurrence were found from his possession, claimed a CTD chief. It was also settled that his confessional matter underneath a law has been available as well.
A two-judge dais headed by Justice Naimatullah Phulpoto is conference matching petitions seeking a recover of Sajid alias Peena, Qamar Siddiqui and his hermit Muhammad Siddiqui — all pronounced to be facilitators of a conflict who have given been reportedly privileged of charges, according to kin seeking their release.
Gunmen shot passed 45 members of a Ismaili village on a hinterland of Karachi in May 2015. Five indicted in a case, including Saad Aziz, Tahir Hussain Minhas, Asadur Rehman and Mohammad Azhar Ishrat, have been condemned to death. In May this year, army arch General Raheel Sharif also sealed a genocide warrants for their execution.
In response to notices of a court, a CTD chief, along with a Central SSP and SHO of a Sohrab Goth troops hire filed their comments on Monday.
In his comments, a Central SSP pronounced all a indicted were sent to jail in tie with a occurrence on Oct 26 final year. The officer serve pronounced that following their self-assurance by a troops court, a indicted were sent to jail, solely Sajid and a Siddiqui brothers.
In his report, a Sohrab Goth SHO pronounced a box associated to unlawful arms has been purebred opposite Sajid.
The Rangers’ lawyer, Allah Bachayo Bhatti, requested for time to record comments per a control of a 3 men. Allowing a request, a judges destined him to record such comments by Oct 27.
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 18th, 2016.
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