| The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) of the Sindh Police claimed on Tuesday to have arrested five men belonging to the 'criminal wing' of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), and seized weapons and illegally-obtained money from their possession. Senior Superintendent of Police Umer Khattab, head of the SIU, said the men were arrested from Kunwari Colony in Manghopir after a brief encounter in the early hours of Tuesday. "We have arrested five men who were involved in bank robberies and kidnappings to generate funds for [TTP chief Baitullah] Mehsud's Taliban," Khattab told AFP. Khattab said five other suspects in another car had fired on police, but escaped. |