Karachi: Crime Investigation Department (CID) of Karachi yesterday said they busted a gang of Taliban in western slum of the city and arrested four militants including Karachi chief Tehreek-e-Taliban of Pakistan.
The CID police also recovered a suicide jacket besides rockets and other assault weapons, Fayyaz Khan, the superintendent of police said.
A press conference was informed that the police carried the raids overnight on a tip-off and arrested the four militants from Manghopir Road and Suparco Mor (turning) and arrested Abdul Qayyum Meshud, an alleged ameer (chief) of TTP Karachi. Mohammad Sharif Mehmand, Habib Khan Mehsud and Usman Mehsud were also arrested in the raids, Khan told a press conference.
Abdul Qayyum Mehsud, the police said, was a trained terrorist and he also remained bodyguard of Baitullah Mehsud, the chief of TTP in Pakistan.
He carried many militant operations in South Waziristan against the Pakistani military and intelligence agencies.
"Abdul Qayym was also given tasks by Wali Rehman, the South Waziristan commander, of assassination and he carried many such killings in Peshawar, Dera Esmail Khan and district Tang," Khan told the press conference.
Khan said that the militants had a list to carry terrorist attacks targeting government officials, police, judges and government buildings by blowing them up through bombs.
The Pakistani Taliban draws on a network of militants and for-hire criminals that stretches from the country's northwestern towns, through its Punjab heartland to the commercial capital, Karachi home to some hundreds of thousands Pashtun migrants, the ethnic group that makes up the Taliban.
