| Police in Karachi arrested a man affiliated with Harkatul Mujahideen al-Aalami (HMA), the group involved in the attack on President Pervez Musharraf in April 2002. "We arrested Irfan Khalid when he reached Karachi from Lahore on Thursday evening," Raja Umer Khitab, a senior investigator of the police Crime Investigation Department (CID), told Daily Times. Khalid, 28, was a close aide of Kamran Atif, an HMA militant who masterminded the attack on President Musharraf and is in police custody, said Khitab. The group tried to blow up Musharraf"s car as his convoy travelled along a busy highway from Karachi airport on April 26, 2002. But the attempt failed because a remote-control device intended to detonate an explosive-laden van malfunctioned. Atif is also charged with attacking the United States consulate general in Karachi two years ago, he said. He said Khalid would take care of arranging logistics for the terror group and worked as a contact in the absence of Atif. |