[Dawn] Police 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...
say they have jugged
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
the criminal mastermind behind a deadly bombing which killed nine people and injured senior Sindh High Court (SHC) judge Justice Maqbool Baqar.
In an operation carried out early Wednesday in Karachi's Surjani Town area, police arrested Bashir Leghari, suspected of being the criminal mastermind of the attack on the judge's convoy last month, along with two of his accomplices, said DIG South Dr Ameer Sheikh.
The operation was carried out with the help of of an intelligence agency, said the senior police official.
Leghari was injured in the exchange of fire during the operation, while a policeman was also maimed, he said.
The suspect is said to belong to the 'Asif chotu group' of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
, a banned bully boy outfit involved in several sectarian killings.
On June 26, a powerful bomb kaboom had targeted Justice Baqar's convoy as it was passing through the busy Burnes Road area. The senior judge was maimed, but his driver and eight security personnel escorting him suffered fatal wounds.
The bomb was reported to have been planted in a parked cycle of violence and detonated by a remote control on the busy road in a high security zone of the city, yards from the Sindh High Court building and close to the Sindh Assembly, the Sindh Secretariat, and the headquarters of the provincial government.
Justice Baqar, a member of the Shia community, was said to be on the hit-list of religious bully boys, including the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP).
A front man for Tehrik-e-Taliban had grabbed credit for the attack on the senior judge, claiming he was targeted due to his "anti-Taliban and anti-Mujahideen decisions".
The jurist had served as the administrative judge of the anti-terrorism courts in Karachi and initially heard terrorism cases in this capacity.