KARACHI: The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) has claimed to have arrested an alleged terrorist, associated with the banned Sindh Revolutionary Army (SRA), during a joint raid in Karachi today (Tuesday).
According to details, the CTD, along with a sensitive agency, arrested the ‘trained’ SRA terrorist Sajjad aka Bablo from Met roundabout of Karachi’s University Road. The raid team also recovered hand grenade from his possession.
A CTD spokesperson informed that the arrested accused was wanted in multiple cases of facilitating attacks on Rangers, as well as planning to target Chinese engineers’ van and August 14 Independence rallies and stalls last year.
The spokesman claimed that Sajjad has allegedly confessed to facilitating an attack on a Rangers’ van in Liaquatabad on June 19 2020, which resulted in the killing of a citizen and injuring seven others including a Rangers official.
He further revealed that Sajjad had devised a plan to attack a Chinese engineers’ van over the directives of SRA leadership. However, they failed to carry out the attack after going into hiding due to the raids of law enforcement agencies.
The spokesperson said that teams have been constituted comprising officials of CTD and federal sensitive agency to arrest Sajjad’s accomplices.
