The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) book four suspects of funding Daish terrorist group, quoting sources ARY News reported on January 12. “A suspect Umar bin Khalid was detained from Tariq Road in year 2020 over the illegal funding,” CTD sources said. “The accused however released on personal surety due to want of evidence,” sources said. “Two mobile phones were also taken from the possession of Umar bin Khalid and sent for forensic test,” sources said. Digital forensic report of the cell phones has provided evidence against the accused and his accomplices. A case has been filed against Umar bin Khalid and his three accomplices, Junaid, Zia and Awais. The accused were in contact with Daish terrorists in Syria and Pakistan.
An Anti-terrorism court (ATC) of Karachi on January 12 sentenced two persons inspired by Daish to life imprisonment in a case pertaining to the killing of a Pakistan Navy officer in 2013, reports Dawn. Accused Saad Aziz alias Tin Tin and Tahir Hussain Minhas alias Saeen were found guilty of murdering Captain Ahmed of the Pakistan Navy and wounding his foreign wife in an armed attack in Karachi. The judge of the ATC-VIII pronounced the verdict reserved after recording evidence and final arguments from both sides. Both the accused, who were sentenced to death by a military court for the 2015 Safoora Goth bus carnage in which around 43 members of the Shia Ismaili community were killed, were produced in court from prison. The judge also imposed a fine of PKR 500,000 each on them and in case of default Aziz would have to undergo an additional six-month imprisonment, while Minhas would have to undergo an additional three-month imprisonment. The same court also awarded life imprisonment to accused Saad Aziz in a policeman’s murder case on October 16, 2014. Constable Waqar Hashmi, who was posted in the Rapid Response Force, was attacked and killed at the Powerhouse Chowrangi in Sector 11-K of New Karachi when he was returning home from duty.