KARACHI: The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) has arrested the mastermind behind the murder of Abdul Qayyum Sufi, who was killed in a target-killing incident in Gulistan-e-Johar.

As per details, the accused, Ateeq Alam, an inspector in the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), was arrested by the CTD on a tip-off who was absconding for the past one and a half years.

According to the CTD, Alam had hired two contract killers, Ali Akbar and Tanveer, to kill Sufi over a land dispute. The killers had been arrested earlier, but the mastermind behind the crime had managed to evade arrest until now. The CTD said that Ateeq Alam had paid Rs 5 lakh to the killers to carry out the murder.