Police has arrested a suspected militant wanted for the high-profile murders of religious leaders, officials said on Sunday. Ammar Raza Naqvi was arrested from Malir district on Sunday as police seized a Kalashnikov rifle and two hand grenades from him during the raid, senior police official Raja Umer Khatab told AFP.
Khatab said that Naqvi belonged to the banned militant outfit Sipah-e-Mohammad and was wanted for his suspected role in the killing of Maulana Azam Tariq, prominent scholar Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai and other religious figures.
Mufti Shamzai was shot dead in May 2004, in Karachi, while Maulana Tariq, the former head of the banned Sipah-e-Sahaba organisation, was gunned down with his driver and three bodyguards in Islamabad in October 2003.