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2021-03-12 India-Pakistan

MQM-London female leader Kehkashan Haider for running target killing network in Karachi

[DAILYTIMES.PK] Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) Deputy Inspector General Omar Shahid on Thursday revealed that Muttahida Qaumi Movement
...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead...
-London’s (MQM-L) Kehkashan Haider ran a murder network in 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...
In a presser with the Sindh Rangers on Thursday, the CTD revealed an audiotape of Haider talking to a man, suspected to be a button man, and offering him money.

“Look, I had told Elia to give you 15, okay. I’m working on something, if everything works out, I’ll try to arrange 50 more for you by the next week.," the MQM-L leader was heard saying.

"Ji baji [Okay, elder sister]," the man replied.

Haider told the man that if the "job" is done well, she will pay him between Rs100,000 to Rs200,000. "See, there will be one pilot. And there will be another one. You don’t have to make small talk with any of them."

She reiterated that the job has to be completed and invited him to a place where the "number plates will be changed".

Colonel Shabbir said their targets had been individuals whose deaths held potential for creating sectarian strife in the city while DIG Hamid added that other targets were politicians of the city. He refused to share any further details about the targets, citing "concerns about their safety".

Counter-Terrorism Department DIG Omar Shahid Hamid told a press conference along with Rangers officials in Karachi that an intelligence-based operation was ongoing since 2017 when the Sindh Rangers had arrested a team of MQM-London target killers. It was found that the female activist of MQM-L, who lives in Texas, United States, ran a target killing network in Karachi, Hamid said.

DIG Hamid and Col Shabbir of Rangers identified the woman as US-based MQM-L activist Kehkashan Haider. According to DIG Hamid, she has been based in Texas since the 1990s and has remained a close aide of MQM founder Altaf Hussain. “The MQM-L’s Coordination Committee member, Kehkashan Haider, has established target killer groups in collaboration with India’s RAW and anti-Pakistan Sindhi and Baloch groups to target law enforcement agencies, police and political and religious leaders in Pakistan, particularly in Karachi,” Hamid said.

The CTD has registered a case against Haider under Sections 11-H and 11-N of Anti-Terrorism Act of Pakistan pertaining to terror financing, DIG Hamid said. “This has always been a purpose of the MQM-L that terrorism is spread in Karachi […] so there is no doubt that it is a constant effort of theirs to once again plant feet in Karachi.”

He said it was “alarming” that a woman based in the US was coordinating such illicit activities in Karachi “like a mafia don”. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs would be approached to “take up this matter with the relevant law enforcement institutions of the US government”, according to the police officer.

“A clear line of financial transactions is appearing when we traced bank accounts and transactions,” he said, adding that the evidence of financial transactions for terror financing made Pakistan’s case stronger. “If there is any aspect of money laundering in this, [then] it will be investigated according to the Anti-Money Laundering Act and looked at by the FIA [Federal Investigation Agency].”

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