Sensitive institutions have arrested three more key accused of Safoora carnage during different raids conducted in Lahore, Islamabad and an interior part of Sindh. The arrested persons include Abdullah Mansoori, Umar Kathor and IS regional chief Amir Mansoor.
Sources said that Abdullah Mansoori was arrested in Lahore who fled to the capital city of Punjab after the terror attack. The accused was shifted to Islamabad from Lahore while he was allegedly the attacker who gunned down several innocent citizens inside the bus.
Police also arrested another key accused Umar Kathor from an interior part of Sindh. Umar Kathor was allegedly chief of Al-Qaeda Sindh chapter and later he joined Islamic State (IS). He was also being termed as closer aide of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. Police said that Kathor had established an organised terror network across Sindh and Punjab provinces in 2011 while he was also involved in different terror facilitation cases. Police said that Umar Kathor’s wife was also under custody who was running IS women network in Sindh.
In another raid, officials of a sensitive institution arrested IS regional chief Amir Mansoor in Islamabad. Sources said that the accused was involved in recruiting educated and jobless youths for IS while different terrorists arrested from Daska were also part of the network.
