ISLAMABAD – Indian spy agency RAW Network busted in Pakistan’s Karachi.
Three terrors allegedly belonging to a hostile Indian spy agency and thepro-Altaf Hussain Muttahida Qaumi Movement-London were remanded in policecustody for a week in cases pertaining to possession of illicit weapons andexplosives, reported *The Newslink*.
Karachi police on Thursday claimed to have foiled a major potentialterrorism plot as they busted a local network of India’s Research &Analysis Wing (RAW) operated by militants affiliated with the MQM-London.
The city police chief said there had been reports about RAW’s involvementin terrorism in Karachi, about the MQM-London running the intelligenceagency’s local network and about the likelihood of them carrying out amajor terrorist activity in the metropolis at any time.
“We found during our investigations that the MQM-London terrorist whoreceived militancy training in India is the ringleader of the RAW networkin Karachi,” Additional Inspector General of Police (Addl IGP) Ghulam NabiMemon said while addressing a news conference at the Karachi Police Officein Saddar.
“The ringleader had been involved in terrorism here with his MQM-Londoncolleagues on RAW’s instructions.
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He had been in touch with former APMSO [All Pakistan Muttahida StudentsOrganisation] chairman Mehmood Siddiqui, who has been in India for the pastmany years on RAW’s payroll, and used to despatch funds throughhawala-hundi for carrying out terror activities in Karachi,” he said.
The group had also been keeping in touch with the MQM-London’s notoriousterrorist Safdar Baqri in Canada, he added.
The Addl IGP said the group had been tasked by RAW to provide funds todifferent terrorist groups in Karachi for carrying out terror activities,to store bombs and other weapons and supply them to different terrorists,to gather information about the city’s sensitive installations, includingthose of security and intelligence agencies, and share it with theintelligence agency as well as provide updates on the political situationin the metropolis.
