SUKKUR: Sukkur police’s counterterrorism department (CTD) claimed to have arrested a member of the banned terrorist outfit, Sindh Revolutionary Army (SRA), late on Wednesday night.

A press release issued by the CTD on Thursday said that police raid a hideout after receiving tip-off about the presence of Ahad Ali Soomro, who was wanted in several cases of heinous crimes and terror acts, and detained him.

Police claimed to have found in his possession a 30-bore pistol with a large amount of bullets, a timer, 15 detonators and proscribed material used in preparing improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

Police said that the suspected terrorist confessed to his involvement in several criminal activities, including robberies and terror acts across the province, in the course of interrogation.

He told the interrogators that he was involved in major dacoities in Sindh, including robbery of Saud Gulzar son of former Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed and carried out several terror acts across the province on the orders of SRA commander Asghar Shah.

In 2020, he placed for safekeeping a hand grenade and a large amount of proscribed material at his sister’s house in Karachi and then used them in different terror actions, such as attack with an IED on a law enforcement agency’s vehicle in Larkana, he said.

Published in Dawn, July 22nd, 2022