KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) The death toll from an overnight grenade attack on a truck carrying women and children in Karachi rose to 12 on Sunday. Attackers targeted the truck on Saturday evening as it shuttled an extended family from a wedding ceremony in a western Karachi neighborhood, killing nine people and wounding nine others. […]
Karachi
January 29, 2021
After unearthing terror-financing through hawala hundi and cryptocurrency, counter-terrorism experts of the Sindh police have discovered another way of terror-financing by the outlawed organisations.
The counter-terrorism officers have learned that the funding of terror outfits is being done through illegal imports and exports of chemicals. “The CTD investigation wing had been investigating terror-financing in high-profile cases for the last couple of months, and the terrorists in these cases belong to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and Afghanistan, and they generate funds for their organisation through smuggling from the abroad,” a CTD officer explained. “We have traced the network of these terrorists due to the hectic efforts made by the investigation wing.”
CTD announces arrest of terrorist, traces network financing Daesh
Karachi
January 28, 2021
Personnel of the Sindh Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) on Wednesday announced the arrest of a terrorist whose name has been included in the Red Book of notified terrorists.
Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Omar Shahid Hamid, the CTD Sindh chief, said a most-wanted terrorist of a banned organisation, Zaytoon Brigade, who was already named in the Red Book compiled by the government, was arrested by a joint team of CTD officials and an intelligence agency.
The terrorist has been identified as Abbas Jafri and is said to be a close aide to another most-wanted terrorist Yawar Abbas. The raiding team also confiscated a weapon from his possession.