The Crime Investigation Department (CID) of the Sindh police has arrested four suspected militants of banned sectarian outfits and is interrogating them in various cases of terrorism in the city reported lately. The sources said the CID arrested three activists of the outlawed Sipah-e-Mohammad Pakistan who are suspected to be involved in many acts of sectarian terrorism in Punjab.
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The officials refused to disclose their names, but said the activists were mainly based in Punjab and moved to Karachi a few weeks back to avoid their arrest there. âWe are constantly in touch with the Punjab police to share the details about the arrest and interrogation of the suspects,â a senior CID official said.
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It is learnt these suspects are also being interrogated about the killing of five brothers, who belonged to the Tablighi Jamaat, on Aug 9 in Jamshed Quarters area. âWe do not know whether these suspects have any link to those killings, but we do not want to leave any possibility aside that could lead us to solve the case,â an investigator said. The CID officials have already arrested an activist of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, identified as Shahjehan alias Shahu, who is said to be deputy to ` alias Jameel alias Khalid whom the police arrested on March 13 on a charge of killing nine Shias hailing from the Northern Areas in Al-Falah area in February. He was also alleged to have killed another two men in Arambagh area and involved in the blast outside the PSO House in which a man was killed and two others were injured. Wahab also allegedly killed a fellow LJ activist, Omair, on the suspicion that he had become a police informer.
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