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| Mullah nabbed in Karachi... |
| 2002-08-14 |
| An associate of the former Taliban rulers of Afghanistan was arrested by law enforcement agencies in Karachi’s Gulistan-i-Jauhar area in the early hours of Saturday. Mullah Asghar had been a close associate of the Mullah Omar and his band of brothers. After the collapse of the theocratic rule in Afghanistan, Asghar shifted to Karachi from Kandahar. The man reached Karachi along with a woman whose name and other details could not be learnt. He had also a bagged huge quantity of US dollars and half-a-million of Pakistani rupees before fleeing to Pakistan. Took off his turban, shaved his beard, grabbed the dough, and lit out with a bleached blonde floozy named Flo... Sources said the Pakistani authorities received information from Washington identifying his flat in a residential complex in Gulistan-i-Jauhar. The law enforcement agencies conducted a raid on that flat only to learn that he had moved from there two days earlier. "Yes, oh, colleague at the FBI! I shall pass the information on to my superiors immediately! My name? I am Mahmoud al-Weesil... Spell it? W-e-a-s-e-l..." Acting on a tip-offearly Saturday morning, law enforcement agencies personnel cordoned of Rabia City residential complex and raided a flat owned by one Uns Abbasi. The name was later discovered to be one of many aliases of the mullah. Officials took him to an undisclosed destination. Three fake ID cards with the names of Ahmed Zia, Zeeshan and Siddiq were recovered. Sources said ‘sensitive’ documents and other related items were also found. You could tell he was a Muslim by the number of fake IDs he had... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |