Karachi police got a major breakthrough in the investigation of the car bomb blast outside the US Consulate General Karachi on June 14, as two arrested hardcore activists of banned militant outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Akram Lahori and Attaur Rehman alias Naim Bukhari, confessed to their involvement in the blast, sources said on Thursday.
Well-placed sources told The News that an official announcement in this regard would be made in next two or three days, probably by Federal Interior Minister Lt-Gen (retd) Moinuddin Haider in Karachi.
It is reliably learnt that two different teams of US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and a Pakistani Joint Interrogation Team (JIT) interrogated both Akram Lahori and Attaur Rehman and declared them "black" in US Consulate General bomb blast case.
Sources disclosed that during investigation, both the accused reportedly confessed to their links with al-Qaeda network and Taliban. The accused persons also revealed to the investigators their future targets, the sources said.
However, after a passage of more than 10 days, neither the Capital City Police nor the Crime Investigation Department (CID) has accepted the arrest of the two accused in any case.
The sources said Akram Lahori and Attaur Rehman alias Naim Bukhari were taken to Punjab from Sindh; and on their pointation, a joint team of Punjab police and FBI conducted raids at several places and arrested dozens of activists of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.
Akram Lahori had been arrested by CID and Attaur Rehman alias Naim Bukhari by the Field Wing of Pakistan Rangers. The sources said that some 134 new AK-47 rifles, dozens of rocket launchers, heavy quantity of explosive material and other weapons were recovered by police and Rangers in Karachi on the pointation of the two accused. |
