Police arrest key TTP leader in Karachi

KARACHI: In a joint raid of police and an intelligence agency, an important leader of the banned outfit Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has been arrested, Bol news reported on Wednesday.

The suspect has been identified as Sher Daraz alias Sher Khan, who has reportedly been involved in terrorist activities including attacks on personnel of Frontier Corps and Pakistan Army.

Police said the suspect had worked with five big terrorist commanders and had visited Afghanistan to meet terrorist organisations. Police have launched an investigation after filing a case against the suspect.

Read more: Six arrested for attacking police station in protest against citizen’s ‘death in custody’

On April 9, police had arrested six people for attacking police station while protesting against police’s allegedly torturing a citizen to death.

The suspects had reportedly besieged Tasweer Mahal police station of Zaman Town in Korangi and tried to set it on fire.

Police had claimed that they had found the victim Abdullah unconsciously lying on the ground in a street near the police station, so they had taken him along with residents of the area in a rickshaw to hospital, however, it had turned out that he was dead.