KARACHI: Karachi police along with intelligence agencies on Tuesday claimed to have arrested an accused belongs to the banned organization Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM) from Bhittaiabad area of the city.
According to Spokesperson of Karachi police, the Sindh police and intelligence agencies conducted a joint operation in Bhittaiabad area of the airport and arrested an alleged leader of JSMM, a banned organization, led by Shafi Burfat, a self-exiled nationalist. The arrested accused has been identified as Ramesh Kumar. The arrested accused is highly educated and also specializes in making various types of explosive devices and bombs, the police claimed in its statement. “Arrested accused Ramesh Kumar was the mastermind of more than 38 cracker / grenade attacks in Karachi from 2010 to 2015,” the police officials claimed.
The police has also claimed that accused, along with other accomplices, confessed to rioting and setting fire to hundreds of vehicles during strikes and targeted killings of innocent civilians in the city, including grenade attacks.
During interrogation, the accused revealed that orders for all terrorist acts were received from Shafi Barfat, the leader of the banned organization, the police said. The police statement also stated that leader of the banned outfit has become a tool of the intelligence agencies of the enemy countries and has used the youth to carry out terrorist activities in Sindh, especially in Karachi. The arrested accused further disclosed that Barfat used to send funds in addition to orders for all these operations so that he could procure equipment for making explosives and finance other members of the organization, the police said.
The police have also claimed to recover explosives, cables, grenades, mobile phones and identity cards from the arrested accused. Accused Ramesh Kumar is being interrogated. Further revelations and arrests are expected, the police officials said.
However, the family of Ramesh Kumar held a protest demonstration and said that their beloved one was working in a garment factory near Singer chorangi and he had nothing to do with any political party. The family said that Kumar came to Karachi from Tando Jan Muhammad and got job in a factory. The family said he was taken away by police and some unknown men in civilian dress on 8th July from the factory.