The Pakistan Rangers (Sindh) on May 1 arrested a Jundullah militant Khan Badshah, who went by the aliases Umer Farooq, Khan, Maviah, Bacha and Bihari, from Paracha Chowk area of Shershah locality in Kiamari Town of Karachi, the provincial capital of Sindh, reports The News. The arrested militant’s name is also mentioned in the Red Book of the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD). The Rangers spokesman said that the militant had been working with Jundullah’s Haji Mumtaz alias Hamza Group. During the initial investigations, the suspect revealed that he and his accomplices had transported a large cache of weapons to Karachi from Waziristan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and that the weapons were used against the CTD in a 2007 shootout in Shah Latif Town.
The suspect also disclosed that in 2007 he and his accomplices had committed a robbery at a bank located on Rashid Minhas Road and made off with PKR 1.7 million. In 2008 they committed a robbery at another bank and made off with PKR 3 million. During the same year they committed a robbery at a bank’s Malir Halt branch and made off with PKR 3 million, and on resistance they shot a security guard there. In 2010 there was an encounter in Shah Latif Town with the Police in which he managed to escape. In October 2013 he had targeted several persons in the Ittehad Town area and in 2017 he and his accomplices had committed a robbery at a bank’s Liaquat Market branch and made off with PKR 3 million, and on resistance they had murdered a Police official and two security guards. He is also an expert in making bombs.