[Pak Daily Times] Spanish police have jugged a Pak man they say is linked to a cell that forged passports for al Qaeda-linked groups.
| Pakistani... forged passports. How unexpected. |
Police had been looking for the suspect since seven members of the cell were jugged in Spain in December and three more in Thailand, Interior Ministry said on Friday in a statement. It named the suspect as 30-year-old Malik Imtanan Sarwar and said he was picked up on Thursday in Barcelona. The statement said he worked with other group members to send stolen passports to Thailand to be doctored and later distributed to groups linked to al Qaeda, mainly Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistain-based terror group blamed for the 2008 Mumbai, India, attacks that killed 166 people. The ministry said the group also supplied forged documents to Tamil Tiger rebels who were crushed in 2009 by Sri Lankan troops after a quarter-century war for an independent state. The seven people jugged in December were six Paks and one Nigerian. The ministry said they stole passports, mostly from tourists around Barcelona. The forged passports allowed members of terror groups to enter Europe and other countries. |