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| Paks nab Lashkar-i-Jhangvi supremo |
| 2002-07-02 |
| Sindh Inspector General of Police Syed Kamal Shah said that Mohammad Ajmal alias Akram Lahori, aged 39, the supreme commander of the banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi after Riaz Basra was killed, has been arrested, along with three accomplices. Akram Lahori, who was produced before the press, admitted his involvement in sectarian killings and said: "I have no regrets about what I have done." He said that he had joined Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan in 1990. "I dunnit an' I'm glad..." So they've nabbed the heads of Sipah and Lashkar-i-Jhanvi. That'll be significant, if they don't spring them next week... About his successor, he said that now the group would work at city-level in different cities of the country and not on a national level. Therefore, there was no question of a next supremo. In other words, they're broken up and they'll stay that way until the heat's off... Next month. He joined a religious organization in 1990, after which Akram, along with Riaz Basra and Ishaque Malik, formed Lashkar-i-Jhangvi in 1996 in Punjab. Akram had established a training camp in Sarobi, Afghanistan. Giving details of the involvement of Akram Lahori and his accomplices in criminal cases, the IG said that they were involved in the killing of Ehteshamuddin Haider, brother of interior minister, Moinuddin Haider; Managing Director, Pakistan State Oil, Shaukat Mirza; Dr Rashid Mehdi, Dr Aley Safdar Zaidi; the principal of Jamia Millia Institute, Syed Zafar Zaidi; Agha Abbas of Agha Juice Centre and others. In Punjab, he was also involved in various criminal cases including killing of 24 people at Mominpura, Lahore; 11 in Imambargah Najaf, Pir Wadhai, Rawalpindi; DSP Tariq Kambo in Lahore and others. Kind of like Murder, Incorporated, only with turbans... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |