Different versions on assassins of Shuja Khanzada

‘Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Sath’ 

KARACHI: The Karachi Police have claimed that the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Al Aalmi is involved in the major incidents of terrorism in Karachi, said Shahzeb Khanzada on Geo News programme, ‘Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Sath’, on Tuesday.

The police in a major operation have arrested four terrorists of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Al Aalmi. Shahzeb Khanzada said that the leader of the suspects, Abu Sufian alias Muawia, is likely to have been involved in the target killings of Military Police and Rangers personnel as well as in the killing of Punjab’s home minister Shuja Khanzada.

The host of the programme said what the Karachi Police have claimed today was different from what the Punjab government had said earlier.

He said the Punjab Inspector-General of Police had said that Shuja Khanzada’s assassins belonged to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan while Farooq Awan was claiming that the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Al Aalmi was involved in the murder.

In a different segment of the programme, Shahzeb Khanzada said that Imran Khan has announced that he is taking the matter of PanamaLeaks to the Supreme Court. At the same time, Imran Khan has brought to light a new scandal of money-laundering. Imran alleges that Nawaz Sharif is the beneficiary/owner of a foreign company.

Shahzeb Khanzada said that the rallies of the Tehreek-e-Insaf in Rawalpindi and Islamabad have failed to make a large impact. He wondered if this is due to the Tehreek-e-Insaf losing its popularity or is it due to Imran Khan’s continuous politics of protest having exhausted his supporters.  Shahzeb Khanzada said that the anti-corruption department has decided to take the matter of alleged rigging in the Karachi intermediate pre-medical exam results to the court.

Adviser to Sindh government Murtaza Wahab said that the department would produce answer sheets of 95 candidates before the court to prove malpractices.

Meanwhile, the SSP of SIU, Farooq Awan, while talking to Shahzeb Khanzada on the programme, said that the chief of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Al Aalmi, Abu Sufian, is actually one of the remnants of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a man named Safdar. He was arrested in 2009 and released in 2014. He formed a network in Balochistan and started claiming responsibility for some attacks. Safdar’s name had emerged in the killing of military personnel at the Tibet Centre. When an investigation about him was conducted, it appeared that perhaps he had a role in providing the suicide bomber in the Shuja Khanzada case.

The SSP said that a lot of things about Abu Sufian need confirmation, and until his arrest, it’s premature to say all those things.

“I have never made a claim at my press conference of having arrested suspects in high-profile cases. I had simply said that these people used to commit robberies disguised as police people in police uniforms. When the media had asked me about Abu Sufian, I said that maybe he was involved in those cases, but these things are not confirmed at the moment. Abu Sufian may have been involved in the killings of Shuja Khanzada and those of the Military Police personnel,” the police official said.

In a different segment of the programme, a leader of the PML-N, Mohammad Zubair, said that Imran Khan should provide the media and the Election Commission with evidence instead of simply leveling allegations.

He said that there is not a single document from 1993 to 2005 in which there is to be found any reference to Nawaz Sharif or his wife or his children. He said that the allegations the PML-N has leveled against Imran Khan are very obvious, and that Imran Khan should respond to our allegations in parliament. He said that if Imran Khan’s income was 100,000 pounds, then how come he bought a house of 200,000 pounds.  A leader of the Tehreek-e-Insaf, Imran Ismail, told Shahzeb Khanzada on the programme that none of the statements of Imran Khan has ever been proved wrong. He said that the BBC had aired a programme on Nawaz Sharif’s corruption.  Imran Ismail said that if it had been within the capacity of the PML-N to have Nawaz Sharif’s name deleted from the website, the party would have done so a long time ago.