Karachi ATC indicts five for attacking Chinese Consulate
National
January 12, 2021
KARACHI: An Anti-Terrorism Court on Monday framed charge against five suspects for allegedly facilitating an attack on the Chinese Consulate in Karachi in 2018.
The accused include Ahmed Hasnain, Muhammad Aslam, Nadir Khan, Ali Ahmed and Abdul Latif, who are said to be associated with the ethnic insurgent group the Balochistan Liberation Army. They were taken into custody by the Counter-Terrorism Department in January 2019 for allegedly providing tactical and logistics support to the attackers.
According to the investigation officer, Latif and Aslam had confessed to the crime before a judicial magistrate a week after their arrest. However, during the hearing at the ATC-VII, all of the accused denied the charges and opted to contest the case. Three heavily-armed militants had attacked the Chinese Consulate located in the high-security zone of Clifton’s Block-4 on November 23, 2018. Four people, including security personnel and visa seekers, were killed in the ambush.