Naimat Khan
KARACHI: Police have arrested son of the dean Islamic Learning faculty of the University of Karachi for his alleged association with Ansar ul-Sharia Pakistan (ASP), a newly emerged terror outfit responsible for killing policemen and attacking leader of opposition in Sindh Assembly Khawaja Izharul Hasan, it emerged here on Wednesday.
Son of Dr Abdul Rasheed, Danish Rasheed, has been arrested from his house in Staff town inside the premises of the University of Karachi, sources told The Frontier Post.
Dr Rasheed, who hails from Hazara District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, was earlier interrogated in connection with murder of Dr Shakeel Auj, a university professor who interrogators say was killed for his religious belief.
Police also took in their custody laptop, mobile phone, USB and other belonging of Danish, who is a graduate from a London University.
Meanwhile, the detained leader of Ansar ul-Sharia Pakistan (ASP) Dr Abdullah Hashmi – who was arrested on Tuesday night – and detained parents of other terrorists have made startling disclosures. According to Intelligence sources the arrested chief of ASP has told interrogators that he formed ASP in 2015 and contracted Abdullah Baloch of Al Qaeda for annexing his outfit with international terror organization but Baloch advised him to continue working independently.
Abdullah Baloch remained in Karachi during 2012 before he escaped a raid and went to Afghanistan. According to Hashmi his group is comprised of around 12 highly qualified youths from Karachi University, NED University and Dawood University of Engineering and Technology.
All members of the group, Hashmi reported told interrogators, had obtained military training from Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, Sajjad Siddiqui, father of Abdul Kareem Sarosh Siddiqui told police that conduct of his son was suspicious for the last few months. He would remain awaken in nights and won’t respond to his parents’ queries properly. He further told that his son remained missing for two weeks twice a year but it was later that he came to know that his son had gone to Afghanistan.
When police raided I asked Sarosh to surrender but he resorted to firing and fled, his father told.
Meanwhile, CM Sindh has said that three different groups are involved in the killing of policemen in Karachi and all three have been busted by law enforcement agencies. While talking to media after the Defence Day ceremony at Pakistan Air Force Masroor Base on Wednesday, Murad said that this success would help to eliminate organized terrorism and crime in the city. He praised the efforts of law enforcement agencies.
“We have destroyed those [terrorist groups] to a considerable extent but there is still a lot of work to be done.”
