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ATC grants 12-day remand of Karsaz tragedy mastermind

KARACHI: Anti-Terrorism Court granted 12 days’ remand of Qari Saifullah-alleged mastermind of Karsaz bombing—to investigation police. Bahadurabad investigation police had arrested Saifullah on March 13. He was brought to the Anti-Terrorism special court in Sindh High Court under strict security and presented before the administrative judge Justice Khawaja Naveed Ahmed. The court granted 12 days’ physical remand of the accused to the police to carry out the investigation till the 29th of March. The security was beefed up on this occasion as the face of the accused was covered when he was produced in the court. Though Qari Saifullah Akhtar’s link with the October 18th blast in Karachi is yet to be established by the authorities, his earlier involvement in a failed coup plot of 1995 has presented him as one of the most deadly militants who had gone astray. Akhtar is an alleged member of Al-Qaeda and previously was the amir of the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami. He was reportedly running a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan in 2001 and had trained 3500 persons in conventional and unconventional combat. He has repeatedly been associated with terrorist attacks between 1995 and 2007 with alleged connections to the kidnapping of Daniel Pearl in 2002 -- two attempts to assassinate President Musharraf in 2003 -- and the unsuccessful attack on Benazir Bhutto in October 2007.
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