Other MoA event in Sindh, Karachi area, Pakistan on Thu 3rd November 2022

The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on November 3 arrested one Sindh Revolutionary Army (SRA) terrorist from Gulistan-i-Jauhar area of Karachi, the provincial capital of Sindh, who allegedly intended to kill a Chinese doctor in Hyderabad and was associated with the perpetrators of a similar attack on Chinese dentists in Karachi in September, reports Dawn. A statement by the CTD spokesperson, the CTD’s personnel and a Federal intelligence agency conducted an operation in Gulistan-i-Jauhar after receiving information about the suspect’s presence in the area. They subsequently arrested a cadre of SRA, identified as Afzal Lund alias Aafi, the statement said, adding that a 30-bore unlicensed pistol along with a 5-round magazine and a motorcycle were seized from his possession. The CTD said the suspect had admitted during interrogation that he had been in contact with SRA chief Zulfiqar Khaskheli, who was in Germany. Khaskheli was providing financial assistance to Lund and it was with the money sent by him that the latter had bought weapons and the motorcycle, according to the statement. The CTD said Lund had completed the recce for killing the Chinese doctor in Hyderabad but was arrested before carrying out the attack.