KARACHI - Karachi police on Thursday claimed to have arrested a high-profile Afghan Taleban leader as well as an Egyptian from their hideout of infamous Sohrab Goath located on the outskirts of the city. A police spokesman told newsmen that on a tip-off it arrested a former governor of Afghanistan's province of Oruzgan and a close companion of Mullah Omar, chief of Tehrik-e-Taleban Afghanistan, Abdul Hai Salik and an Egyptian national Zaki Izzat Mohammed.Karachi. That's not in Afghanistan. Boy howdy, wonder what he's doing in Pakistain ...
Karachi law enforcement agencies announce arrests of the Taleban and Al Qaeda leaders and symphatisers virtually every day in the city but independent observers and even the media have doubts about the credibility of these arrests. The alleged terrorists are hardly produced before a court or shown to the media or their whereabouts after the arrests and most of them when produced in court are freed due to lack of evidence.
Even the media are on to them ...
After receiving credible reports from security agencies and informers a police party raided a hideout and apprehended two alleged terrorists.
Salik, the police said was mastermind of ambushes on US and Nato forces in Afghanistan and after the death of Commander Naik Mohammed in a drone attack he slipped into Pakistan and was responsible for attacks on Pakistani forces.
Zaki Izzat Mohammed, reported by a private tv channel Aaj as one of the richest persons of Egypt had been involved in financing the banned terrorist groups including Al Qaeda.