The city police chief has written a letter to the Sindh IGP seeking a formation of a joint-interrogation team to investigate three suspected Indian spies. The team will be formed after the approval of the home department.
The police have claimed that the three suspects were working as “sleeper cells” for RAW, an Indian intelligence agency. The police want members of the FIA to be part of the team too. Karachi police chief Ghulam Nabi Memon, in a press conference on March 19, informed of their arrest. He claimed that weapons and explosives were seized from the custody of the suspects.
He said that they were members of MQM-London and received large sums of money from India. They even received encrypted emails telling them to transfer funds to fund terrorist activities in Karachi. They have confessed to providing the funds for the murder of MQM leader Imran Farooq and to a terrorist group that attacked a Muharram procession in Karachi in 2009. The police chief said that the three men were working as government employees. One was working for the water and sewerage department, another at the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation, while the third one for the University of Karachi.
AIG Ghulam Nabi Memon said in a press conference on March 19 that the arrested person identified as Shahid alias Muttahida is the head of RAW’s terror wing. Memon detailed that police forces conducted separate raids on a tip-off and arrested the terrorist and his two accomplices for running a terror network linked with RAW in Karachi. Besides making the arrest, the raid team also recovered two mortar launchers, nine rocket launchers, rockets, hand grenades and modern weaponry from their possession.
“The accused person is connected with the RAW network to carry out terrorism activities in Karachi. Shahid Ilyas is associated with Muttahida Qaumi Movement London (MQM-L). He received money through Hawala Hundi from India, whereas, these people are also involved in distributing money to other terrorists.” While making more revelations about the terror network, AIG Memon said that the accused persons were involved in providing intel-based information to a person traced as Mehmood Siddiqui in India. “These people also forwarded information of those persons to India working against the party [MQM-L] policy. The terror wing had also funded Khalid Shamim in Imran Farooq murder case and also paid money for serial bomb explosions in Karachi including 2009’s Muharram blast.”
“Shahid Ilyas alias Muttahida and his two accomplices were arrested from different areas. Later, police officials have recovered ammunition from District Central which was spotted by the arrested men.” The police officer further revealed that all three accused persons are government employees including one from Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB), another from KMC and third is the worker of Karachi University. The accused persons were identified as Shahid Ilyas alias Muttahida, Majid and Adil.
