KARACHI: Sindh Counter Terrorism Department on Wednesday arrested threealleged foreign country agents who were working for the intelligence agencyof neighboring Muslim Country.
Additional IG, CTD, Dr Sanullah Abbasi, told media that agents named Yousufraza, Masoom Naqvi and Akber Ali Asgher.
Earlier in September 2015 it was reported in media through reliable sourcesa sudden hike to the Iranian’s entry into the port city of Karachi afterthe start of Yemen-Saudi conflict,
Iranian nationals coming to the seaside metropolis have been found insuspicious activities, the intelligence agencies reveal in a letter sent tothe Sindh government.
The Pakistani spy agencies have warned the provincial government ofPakistan People’s Party of sudden raise to the entry of Iranian nationals,an officer of the Sindh department told while demanding complete anonymity.A letter received by the Sindh Home department has advised the authoritiesto have a strict eye over the residences and hotels where Iranian nationalsare staying.
The spy agencies have also observed that upto 700 Iranian nationals arevisiting Pakistan on business visas but they don’t return on their scheduletime. In mid of February this year a letter to the Sindh Home departmenthad disclose the failure of police authorities to keep the record offoreigners’ arrival in Karachi.
A year earlier this newspaper had reports that the country’s intelligenceagencies have asked the federal and all four provincial governments toprobe report that around 2,000 persons belonging to a specific sect havemoved to Syria from Pakistan to fight alongside the Bashar al-Assad forcesagainst the rebels, highly credible sources told here on Wednesday.
Previously, there had been reports that militants from Pakistan’s tribalareas, especially the foreigners belonging UK, Sweden and other Europeancountries along with local Taliban had moved to the troubled country tofight alongside rebels against the Bashar Al-Assad regime.
The group of these militants is fighting both pro-Iran regimes of Iraq andSyria under the name of Tehreek-e-Taliban Syria which is now operatingunder the umbrella of SISI and Al-Nusrah groups.
However, these startling revelations have come to fore for the first timethat the Syrian government of Bashar Al-Assad also gets militant assistancefrom Pakistan, the country witnessing sectarian divide for the last fewdecades.
Highly reliable sources in the provincial homes office told that to counterthe rebellion forces, who want to overthrow regime and impose Shariah, theSyrian government with assistance of the neighboring country has recruitedyouths in Karachi and other parts of the country.
The intelligence agencies have warned the federal and provincial governmentto have a check over the activity and probe how they went to Syria.
According to sources the Pakistani Government is investigating thesereports to unveil the forces responsible for raising this aide force forSyrian government.
According to the credible sources militant support, mostly youths ofKarachi, is going to Syria via Iran, which is also being alleged forassisting them in order to help the country with which Iran enjoys thecordial relations.
According to sources the youths, belonging to a specific sect, have usedboth land routes through buses as well as having been traveled through airservices to reach their destination to fight their sacred war.