KARACHI: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) has forwarded to the Sindhgovernment a list of 19 terrorists who received training from Afghanistan.
The provincial government will consult the relevant federal institutions totake up the issue with international bodies and organisations.
CTD Additional IG Sanaullah Abbasi said though the total number of suchindividuals is in hundreds, the 19 individuals at present have owned beingtrained in Afghanistan during negotiations and before courts.
According to details, one of the suspects, Mohammad Adil alias Usmanreceived bomb-making training in Afghanistan by the Taliban. He wasarrested in 2013 when part of the ‘Ghazi Force’ working to assassinateformer president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf.
Similarly, Abdul Ghafoor, who was arrested in 2015, got militancy trainingby the Taliban in Afghanistan and was a part of the Maulvi Agha Jan Group.He was a resident of Landhi, Karachi but hailed from Mohmand Agency in theFederally Administered Tribal Areas.