Alleged Daesh commander killed in Baldia Town

Kamran Aslam was involved in murdering 40 law enforcers in Karachi and Hyderabad attacks

Karachi 

An alleged commander of Daesh Pakistan was killed in a joint operation conducted by police and intelligence officials in Baldia Town’s Ittehad Town on Thursday.

Kamran Aslam was involved in the killing of about 40 law enforcers, including a paramilitary soldier, in Karachi and Hyderabad and carried a head money of Rs2.5 million.

Acting on a tip-off, when District West police commanded by SSP Azfar Mahesar raided a hideout in the locality, they came under gun and grenade attacks, which left two cops injured. The police retaliated and, after a brief encounter, captured one of the terrorists in an injured condition. An unspecified number of other suspects fled scene.

The law enforcers seized a submachine gun, three hand grenades and explosive material.

The injured terrorist was taken to hospital, where a computerised national identity card found on him confirmed his identity, said Mushtaq Mehar, Karachi’s additional inspector general of police, at a media briefing.

Before succumbing to his wounds, the suspect told police his name was Kamran Aslam alias Kamran Gujjar and he was associated with Daesh Pakistan as its operational commander.

Formerly, he worked with the outlawed Al-Qaeda Indian Subcontinent. During interrogations, Tahir alias Saeen, the mastermind of the Safoora Goth bus attack, had said Aslam carried out various acts of terrorism.

Aslam and his associates were said to have murdered a police official along with two people near Rado Bakery in Gulistan-e-Jauhar in 2013. In the same year, he along with his accomplices attacked a police mobile on the Shah Faisal Colony bridge, leaving four policemen dead, and also murdered another four policemen who were deployed outside the residence of MQM-Haqiqi Chairman Afaq Ahmed in Landhi No-5. 

They attacked a police mobile near Piyala Hotel, North Nazimabad, injuring three policemen, besides targeting a mobile of Gulistan-e-Jauhar Police Station in which two officials were killed.

Aslam and his associates attacked a police mobile near Landi Kotal Chowrangi, murdered two policemen and took away an official SMG.

Additional IGP Mehar said the Daesh commander was also involved in the killing of police officials between 2013 and 2015 in Karachi and Hyderabad, as well as in the murder of DSP Fateh Sangri and two other DSPs. Moreover, the militant allegedly murdered a Rangers sepoy near Baitul Muqaram Masjid, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, in 2014.

The terrorist’s victims included activists of political and religious parties. He allegedly murdered Alamgir Masjid’s Khateeb Saleem Naqashbandi in Landhi No. 4 and two Bohri community men near Sareena Market in 2012. 

He also shot dead a notorious target killer of the MQM in the Nazimabad area, a Shia community member in Latifabad No. 5, Hyderabad, and an MQM leader outside city courts in Hyderabad.

Aslam was said to have carried out cracker and bomb attacks in different areas of Karachi and Hyderabad and committed bank heists there.