DADDU – A key Al Qaeda terrorist involved in the attack on a bus nearSafoora Chowrangi in Karachi was arrested in Dadu district in Sindh onTuesday, in a major breakthrough in the investigations.
Senior Superintendent of Police, Tanveer Tunio detailed that the terroristNaveed alias Sharif is associated with banned al-Qaeda and was nabbed uponhis return from Afghanistan.
The terrorist had been declared a fugitive by an anti-terrorism court,revealed the police officer.
The policeman conveyed that six cases were pending against the terroristwho is also accused of killing two policemen in Hyderabad in 2014.
Sharif is also accused of murdering two Rangers personnel during a 2014bank robbery in Hyderabad, Tunio added.
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The Safoora Goth incident happened in May 2015 in which at least 47 membersof the Ismaili community were killed when the bus carrying them came underthe attack in Pakistan’s southern metropolis.
Terrorists including Saad Aziz involved in the attack were awarded capitalpunishment by a military court in 2016.
