CTD kills two ‘TTP terrorists’ in Korangi raid

Personnel of Sindh’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD), with the assistance of paramilitary soldiers, claimed shooting dead two terrorists of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) who were involved in police killings.

The dead were identified as Irfanullah alias Hammad alias Sheena and Nasir alias Khalid, who belonged to the TTP’s Mufti Shakir group.

Acting on a tip-off received in the wee hours of Saturday, Raja Umer Khattab, incharge of the CTD’s Transnational Terrorist Intelligence Group, along with Sindh Rangers’ personnel conducted a raid in the Noorani Basti area of the Korangi district. 

On seeing the law enforcers surrounding their hideout, the terrorists opened fire. The law enforcers retaliated and, after a brief encounter, arrested two terrorists in an injured condition. Other suspects escaped, however. The two were taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where they were pronounced dead.

Khattab said that during the search of the hideout, they seized explosive material, a large quantity of detonators, two pistols and pamphlets.

Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Omer Shahid Hamid, chief of the CTD’s Intelligence Wing, said that over the past few days in the city, some terrorism activities had occurred, in which a number of policemen had embraced martyrdom.

In this regard, he said, a joint CTD-Rangers team had been working to solve cases. During the search of the hideout, he said, they also found a time-bomb, which was later defused by the Bomb Disposal Squad, and an MP-5 rifle.

SSP Hamid added that the weapons seized from the possession of the killed terrorists were used in attacks that had occurred in Awami Colony, where three policemen were martyred, as well as on Abul Hasan Ispahani Road in the Sachal area, where traffic sergeant Mohammad Khan was martyred. The recovered MP-5 had been snatched during the attack on the traffic cop. 

Sindh Inspector General of Police AD Khowaja has announced a cash reward of Rs5 million for the raiding party.