KARACHI: Claiming the arrest of two Indian-trained terrorists of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) from the city’s outskirts, SSP Malir Rao Anwaar Ahmed on Thursday declared the MQM as ‘a more dangerous and anti-Pakistan organisation than the Taliban’ and recommended the imposition of a ban on its activities in the country. “Both the suspected terrorists — Tahir alias Lamba and Junaid Khan — who were arrested last night from the Ahsanabad area with heavy weapons and explosives, are RAW-trained terrorists, who went to India for terrorism training and then returned to Pakistan and carried out their activities here”, SSP Rao Anwaar told a crowded press conference at his office on Thursday evening. On the occasion, both the accused, Tahir alias Lamba and Junaid Khan, whose faces and bodies were covered with large sheets, confessed before the media of going to India and getting training from the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) at its terrorism camp in the Indian city of Dehradun. The istrict Malir police chief claimed that during interrogation, both the accused confessed that they used to get directives from Nadeem Nusrat and Muhammad Anwar from London and Hammad Siddiqui and Farooq Saleem in Karachi and on their orders, killed dozens of people in Karachi. He claimed that the suspect Junaid was a trusted man of the MQM chief Altaf Hussain and he had also dealt in the sale and purchase of properties for Altaf Hussain, adding that both the suspects as well as other MQM terrorists used to get directives from Altaf Hussain via Nadeem Nusrat, Muhammad Anwar and other leaders. SSP Rao Anwaar claimed that 60 to 70 workers of the MQM from different sectors in Karachi were sent to India by their London-based leaders, Muhammad Anwar and Nadeem Nusrat, who were in contact with RAW while the expenses of terrorists for going India were borne by the Khidmat-e-Khalq Foundation (KKF) of the MQM. “Muttahida is an anti-state organisation and its RAW-trained terrorists are behind the killings of doctors, professors, professionals and people from different walks of life. This organisation is basically behind creating the bad law and order situation in Karachi”, he further claimed. Rao Anwaar Ahmed said he was on the hit-list of the MQM and survived many attempts on his life in the past but added that the government of Sindh had made arrangements for his security. He believed that until his time in the world was over, nobody could harm him. Replying to a question regarding a possible strike call by the MQM and efforts to create a law and order situation after his press conference, he was extremely aggressive and said nobody would be allowed to resort to hooliganism and those creating a law and order situation would be dealt with an iron hand. Giving details of the procedure of sending MQM activists to India for terrorism training, Rao Anwaar claimed that selected activists used to contact Zulfiqar Haider, Nadeem Nusrat and Muhammad Anwar and these MQM leaders approved their trips to India for training. An Indian agent based in Bangkok, Thailand, Waqas, arranged funds and visas in Bangkok from where they went to Delhi. “Javed Langra, Naveed, his brother, Tariq Zaidi alias Sunny received these two men and took them to a farmhouse in Delhi and trained them in Dehradun. An Indian Army official named Ram trained them. After training, they were brought back by way of Kashmir and then they entered illegally through the Lahore border”, he added. He said both the terrorists were ashamed of their acts.On the occasion, suspect Tahir Rehan alias Tahir Lamba said he, along with a group of 10-12 activists of the MQM, left for Bangkok in 1996, where they were received by RAW agent Waqas while MQM’s former MPA Zulfiqar Haider contacted them and arranged their boarding and lodging in the Thai capital while he also provided them money for expenses. “Waqas arranged our Indian visas and when we reached Delhi airport, Tariq Zaidi alias Sunny along with RAW agents received us. We were taken to a farmhouse where Javed Langra, his brother Naveed and Tariq alias Sunny used to visit us while Zulfiqar Haider, Nadeem Nusrat and Muhammad Anwar asked us to get training and then complete the tasks in Pakistan”, he added. Tahir alias Lamba claimed that Tariq Zaidi alias Sunny took them to Dehradun where at an Indian training camp, an Indian official Ram trained them in the use of various weapons and after one month’s training they crossed into Pakistan via Lahore and all of them came back to Karachi. He claimed that in Karachi, he formed his own team of target killers and on the directives from Muttahida leaders, carried out the targeted killings of various people including political activists, workers of the People’s Amn Committee and other people. The other accused, Junaid Khan, said he was the younger brother of former sector in-charge of Lines Area, Javed Langra, and in 1999 he went to Delhi and with the help of his brothers Javed Langra and Naveed Khan, started a property business in the Okhala neighbourhood of Zakir Nagar, Delhi. Junaid claimed that he used to receive MQM activists from Pakistan in Delhi where he used to provide them logistic support while his brother and other Muttahida leaders used to arrange terrorism training for the MQM activists. “In 2004, I returned to Pakistan and became an official of the Lines Area Sector. I created my own team of terrorists and target killers, while I also grabbed precious lands and plots in different areas of the city”, he added. Meanwhile, in a late night development on Thursday, IGP Sindh Ghulam Hyder Jamali removed Rao Anwaar from his post on charges of ‘misuse of powers and authority’ after Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah took notice of his press conference and allegations against the MQM. Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Memon late at night stated that SSP Malir Rao Anwaar had clearly violated discipline as he had no right to label an entire political party as a terrorist organisation. Showing displeasure over this act, the Sindh CM ordered his removal.A spokesman for the Sindh Police in his brief message to the media said the charge of District Malir police had been temporarily handed over to SSP East Pir Muhammad Shah. Following Anwaar’s press conference, the Muttahida’s Rabita Committee at an hurriedly-called conference rejected all the allegations levelled by the SSP Malir and accused him of killing and torturing its workers. The provincial and federal authorities were also asked to take stock of the allegations levelled by the ‘infamous’ police official against them.
