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.