 QUETTA, Pakistan -- Police raided a militant hideout and arrested the alleged mastermind of sectarian attacks that killed more than 100 Shiite Muslims in southwestern Pakistan, police said Friday. Habib Ullah, a leader of the outlawed Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Sunni militant group, was captured late Thursday at a home in Quetta, provincial police chief Chaudhry Mohammed Yaqub said. | I'd guess he is the unnamed militant they arrested in the other story |
Ullah is suspected of masterminding 28 attacks against Shiites, including two attacks in 2003 and 2004 that killed more than 100 people. Yaqub said Ullah confessed to the crimes. "This is a major success, and police are also trying to capture other associates of Habib Ullah," the police chief told The Associated Press. | How about taking him to find an arms cache? |
At least 60 people died and dozens other were wounded on July 4, 2003, when suspected Sunni militants with grenades and guns attacked a Shiite mosque in Quetta, the capital of southwestern Baluchistan province. In March 2004, suspected Sunni militants struck a religious procession of Shiite Muslims in Quetta, throwing grenades and opening fire on worshippers before blowing themselves up in an attack that killed 47 people.
Yaqub said Ullah was an important figure in Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a Sunni militant group which is believed to have killed hundreds of Shiites in recent years. |