KARACHI The Sindh Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) published seventh edition of its Red Book containing list and details of the most wanted terrorists. Talking about the Red Book in the Geo News programme ‘Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Saath’ on Tuesday, the host, Shahzeb Khanzada, said the list in the Red Book also contains the names of eight accused involved in the Safoora Goth massacre tragedy. The Anti-terrorism Department has announced Rs0.8 million rewards on capture or providing on information about each of these terrorists. Giving further information, representative of Geo News, Syed Arifeen said the CTD published the seventh edition of the Red Book after a period of two years. The book has two parts containing 92 names. The first part has the names of 67 while the second has the names of 25 terrorists. The first name in the Red Book is Moti-ur-Rahman alis Abd-ul-Samad of the banned terror outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Harkat-e-Jehad Al-Islami and al-Qaeda of the subcontinent. The head money for Moti-ur-Rahman is Rs11 million. This man remained involved in attack on the president (Pervez Musharraf) and a number of other terror acts. He is, at present, hiding in the tribal areas of Pakistan or Afghanistan. The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi is now divided; one of the two groups is headed by Ata-ur-Rahman alias Naeem Bukhari, while the other is headed by Rizwan alias Arif Chotoo. The head money for both of them is Rs5 million and Rs2.5 million respectively. The names of the activists of Sipah-e-Muhammad have also been listed in the Red Book along with the head moneys set for them. The name of Irshadullah, involved in the target killing of police personnel in Karachi is also in the list of the Red Book. Yet another important name is Abdullah Yusuf alias Abdul Aziz, the mastermind of the Safoora Goth massacre, who is residing in Syria at present. There are also the names of his other accomplices. Speaking on this perspective Special Public Prosecutor, Muhammad Khan Baror, who had separated himself from the Safoofa case and later resigned, said the Pakistan forces are making very serious efforts to completely root out terrorism from the country but some people in the bureaucracy are set to fail these sincere efforts. Shahzeb Khanzada said the Karachi Operation may suffer as 1,250 security cameras, installed in the city to monitor the criminal elements, may stop working any moment and there could be terrorism activity. The monitoring system in Karachi is already not praiseworthy. Seventy percent of the installed security cameras in the city have been erected by a private company to which the Sindh government has not paid Rs123 270 million for the period September 2013 to July 2014. In this month of Muharram-ul-Haraam there will be processions and these cameras might be stopped from working any time. Leader of Tehrik-e-Insaf Chaudhry Sarwar said in the programs that evidences have been collected from the voters’ register of 2013 and 2015 on the transfer of voters. It has been found which voters were replaced from one area and shifted to other areas. Chaudhry Sarwar said he will produce the evidences before All Parties’ Conference and later will place them personally with the Chief Election Commissioner. He said people approached us complaining that their votes had been transferred to other areas without their permission, and such people are in thousands. Shahzeb Khanzada said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has left on a four-day tour of America. There is the possibility of talks on important issues. Whenever there were such meetings earlier there used to be call for ‘do more’ but the situation is different this time. America is itself praising Pakistan’s actions against terrorism. This time America has taken the nuclear programme of Pakistan. There have been enough talks and discussions on American media relating to Pakistan’s nuclear programme. It was for the first time we saw that foreign secretary has described that responding to cold start strategy Pakistan has prepared small nuclear weapons and clarified that our nuclear programme is for deterrence and there could no agreement on this matter. He said the world and its media should know what Pakistan’s stand and stance is about its nuclear program. Towards the end of the programme, the host Shahzeb Khanzada dealt with the extremism in India. He referred to the incident that the Shiv Sena gave the same extremism treatment to Pakistani actors Mahira Khan and Fawad Khan. Earlier Ghulam Ali was stopped from presenting a concern to praise Jagjeet Singh. A concert of Makaal Hasan band was cancelled on October 11 in Ahmadabad, while three members of the band are Indian. The Chairman PCB, Shahryar Khan has also expressed grief over cancellation of cricket series. It appears strange that Prime Minister Modi has maintained silence over all of these extreme incidents.
