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2016-04-23 India-Pakistan
Pakistan arrests al Qaeda operative named in U.N. sanctions list
[IN.REUTERS] Police in the Pak city of Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
have incarcerated
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an al Qaeda operative who is on the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
sanctions list, a police official said on Friday.

Pakistain has been under pressure to crack down on Islamist bad boy groups and launched a renewed operation against many of them in 2014, when al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahri announced the formation of a new wing, al Qaeda in the Indian subcontinent.

The region, stretching across countries including Pakistain, India and Bangladesh, is home to more than 400 million Muslims.

Muqadas Haider, a police brass hat, said Abdul Rehman Sindhi was arrested in a joint operation between police and intelligence agencies late on Thursday.

"Abdul Rehman Sindhi is an old veteran of al Qaeda," Haider said. "He had stayed in touch with the late Osama bin Laden
... who is now beyond all cares and woe...
and Ayman al- Zawahri and has worked with Harkat-ul Jihad Islami, Jaish-e-Mohammad
...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat...
and Al Akhtar Trust," he said.

Sindhi was put on a U.N. Security Council sanctions list in 2012 for providing "facilitation and financial services to al Qaeda".
Posted by Fred 2016-04-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [18 views ]  Top
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