Hyderabad girl arrested from Lahore spent two months in Syria

LAHORE: Noreen Laghari, who was arrested during an encounter in Lahore last week, has joined Daesh and had spent two months in Syria before coming to Lahore just a week ago, the Punjab Counter Terrorism Department said.

Noreen, a student of Liaquat University of Medical Science (LUMS), Jamshoro, went missing on February 10, 2017. Hyderabad Police had informed the media that the young girl was inspired by the ideology of Daesh and went to join them on her own.

She was arrested in an encounter with security forces in Lahore during which a terrorist was killed, who was later identified as Ali Tariq. They had tied the knot after coming into contact with each other on Facebook.

The ISPR on Saturday said that a plot to launch a major terror attack in the city on Easter Sunday was foiled. The forces seized suicide jackets and explosives, the statement added.

The couple was helped by an absconding militant Azeem alias Abbu Fauji , who got them a rented house in Lahore.

Noreen had shared her radical religious views on social media as well. A video obtained by the police, showed the girl left for Lahore alone on the day she had gone missing and then contacted her family through social media that she had reached the land of Khilafat.

She is the daughter of Dr Abdul Jabbar Leghari, Professor at Dr M A Kazi Institute of Chemistry, University of Sindh. Professor Jabbar Laghari had said that his daughter left home for university on February 10 and attended morning classes; afterward, she was seen nowhere.