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January 4, 2006

Pakistan: Three Sunni Islamists Arrested

Today, Reuters reports that three militant Sunnis have been arrested, a security official has announced today.

The three men were arrested late Tuesday in Korangi, an industrial district of Karachi. In the raid, guns, detonators and explosives were retrieved.

The individuals have been identified as Maqsood Ahmed Qureshi, Azhar-ul-Haq and Nawaz Khan, all members of the extreme Sunni group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.

Lashkar-e-Jhangvi is one of the groups which has been proscribed by Charles Clarke, the UK Home Secretary. It is virulently anti-Shia, and has been involved with campaigns against the sect. We described earlier their involvement with fomenting sectarian conflict in the Northern Areas province. The group has threatened to use suicide-bombings in the Northern Areas against Shias.

Lashkar-e-Jhangvi has also been involved in an attempt to assassinate Presidant Pervez Musharraf in December 2002. They are also implicated in recent threats made against Christians in the region of Sangla Hill. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi are said to have been involved in the kidnapping and beheading of US journalist, Daniel Pearl, in 2002.

Colonel Qamer Abbas Kayani of the paramilitary security agency, the Rangers, said that the three arrested men had planned to attack targets in Karachi. He said that Nawaz Khan, who was a key financier of the group, had sent Lashkar Islamists to Afghanistan for training. Ul-Haq was a trained suicide bomber,he said, and Qureshi was wanted for seven attacks on Shias.

Keywords: Lashkar-i Jhangvi, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at January 4, 2006 8:40 AM

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