Zahir Pir Police on Friday arrested 6 terrorists from a village who were allegedly involved in suicidal attacks and one of them, Ghulam Nazik, was involved in suicidal attack at Nipa Chowranghi, Karachi.
DPO Rahimyar Khan Ahsan Mehboob said,"We have arrested six terrorists in a dramatic way when they were plotting suicidal attacks in a village near Zahir Pir. However, their five accomplices managed to run away."
He said that a police team was detailed to apprehend them. He said that they had planned a suicidal attack on an Imam Bargah of Mailsi (Vehari district) during Ashura-i-Muharram, but they could not execute their plot due to tight security measures taken by the administration.
They had prepared special belts for the attack. Police seized a kalashnikov, four pistols, a revolver and a large number of bullets, bomb manufacturing substances and three belts.
Those arrested were identified as Muhammad Shaaban Chachar, Abdul Hameed, Imdad-ullah Manak, Qari Muhammad Rafiq, Master Muhammad Nawaz and Javed Akhtar Dashti. During interrogation they admitted that they had killed a Shiite, Syed Akki Shah, and their accomplice Ghulam Nazik was involved in suicidal attack at Nipa Chowranghi.