CTD claims to have arrested an alleged member of a banned outfit in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan during a raid on Tuesday.
According to the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) spokesperson, on the base of an intelligence report, they raided a place on Qambrani Road and arrested a person associated with a banned group. The accused has confessed to operations and targeted killings in Balochistan, CTD claims.
The CTD claimed that arms and ammunition were also recovered from the possession of the accused. The spokesman did not reveal name of the accused or from which banned group he belonged to.
Whereas, in the end of previous month, CTD said that a joint operation was carried out by the department and intelligence agencies in Dasht area of Mastung. “The operation came after a tip-off about the presence of banned outfit members in the area. The operation resulted in an exchange of fire between them and the security forces,” CTD claimed.
“Four terrorists of a proscribed organization were killed in Dasht, Mastung, during an operation by the security agencies,” this was announced by Home Minister Mir Zia Langove during a press conference along with CTD officials.
Meanwhile, a Baloch journalist Salam Sabir in his twitter handle said that ‘Abdul Karim Kurd, who was killed in a fake encounter in Dasht area of Mastung, was arrested by the forces three years ago and now he was killed in a fake encounter just before the PMD’s Quetta meeting.
“Hafiz Muhammad Asif and Hafiz Saifullah, two brothers who went missing from Quetta Kili Bangulzai, were among those killed in a fake encounter with Pakistani forces in Dasht on October 24”. he tweeted later.
It is worth mentioning here that Human Rights activists claim that “killing of forcibly disappeared Baloch and Pashtun activists in fake encounters has become a new order of the Pakistan army.