‘Bin Laden’s associate’ held in Karachi

Police say accused confessed to funding al-Qaeda and grabbing

land in Gulistan-e-Jauhar, Sachal and Surjani

KARACHI: The Rizvia Society Police on Thursday arrested an alleged al-Qaeda leader said to be a close associate of Osama bin Laden.

Police claimed that they had recovered a huge quantity of arms and ammunition from the possession of the alleged al-Qaeda leader.

Station House Officer at the Rizvia Society Police Idrees Alam Bangash said on an information of a sensitive agency a raid was conducted in a house in Nazimabad No 1 and Abdur Rehman Sindhi was arrested from there. 

During interrogation, the accused disclosed that he is a close associate of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and had been injured twice in drone attacks in Waziristan. 

The accused admitted that he was the al-Qaeda Ameer and fought the Nato forces in Afghanistan.

Sindhi said that now a days he is funding for al-Qaeda and also involved in land grabbing of private land in Gulistan-e-Jauhar, Sachal and Surjani Town police limits.

He said his account was seized by the UN in 2014 after his name was put on the list of the most-wanted criminals.

He admitted that he was also involved in target killings and bomb blasts in the city, adding his men after completing the tasks were used to hide in katchi abadis.

He also admitted that he facilitated in the murder of Denial Pearl.

He also said that he had met Osama bin Laden first in 1996 in Afghanistan and later in 2004 in Waziristan.  Sindhi also admitted that he met with Mullah Omar in Afghanistan.