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| Syria-returned militants may be behind attack on policemen: CTD | |
| 2017-06-26 | |
Four coppers were bumped off when armed pillion riders opened indiscriminate fire when they were sitting at a roadside eatery to break their fast. The Counter-Terrorism Department of the Sindh police had launched a probe into the assassination'>assassination after a case was registered against unknown men under Sections 302 (premeditated murder) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistain Penal Code read with Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997 at the CTD cop shoppe, Garden. The police Sherlocks had collected around 28 spent bullet casings fired from two 9mm pistols from the scene of the crime. The empties were sent for a forensic analysis to ascertain whether the same weapon was used in any previous killings. "The forensic report revealed that one of the 9mm pistols was also used in assassination'>assassinations of two coppers within the remit of the New Town cop shoppe on May 20," DIG CTD Amir Farooqi told Dawn. He said that a spokesperson of a previously unknown Lion of Islam outfit, Jamaat-ul-Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... Pakistain, had grabbed credit for the killing of the four coppers as the assailant had thrown a pamphlet there. The same outfit had also claimed the responsibility of the assassination'>assassination of a retired army colonel, Tahir Zia Nagi, in Baloch Colony area in April. He said that this newly established Lion of Islam outfit had declared that they would target law enforcers. The DIG said as per the CTD’s initial assessment this newly created group appeared to be inspired by the banned Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS). "It [the outfit] has evolved recently and the CTD apprehended that it was formed by some snuffies who had earlier gone to fight in Syria and [had] now returned," said DIG Farooqi. | |
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