The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) Karachi while conducting an operation has arrested a staunch activist of a banned organization in the Garden area of Karachi last night. According to CTD, the arrested accused Muhammad Siddiq was involved in various criminal activities of communal target killing and belongs to the banned organization Lashkar Jhangvi. CTD told that the accused Siddiq on slight rebuking by his Bohari Seth Ghulam Murtaza kidnapped and killed in 2004.
In another case the accused also killed Ayub Naqvi, the owner of a bookshop, on his way home in 2010. CTD officials told that after these targeted killings by him, police conducted several raids at the house of the accused to arrest him, but the accused was hiding in Hyderabad for fear of arrest. As the accused returned to Karachi a few days ago, CTD caught him and handed him over to the police for legal action and further interrogations.
Credit : Independent News Pakistan-INP