Information About Incident 58170-115537-292701 in Haripur Pakistan

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In an attempt to foil a bid to commit massive killings as militants were planning to carry out major terrorist activities in Karachi, including invasion in Central Jail to get their accomplices released, and attacking their self-acclaimed rival Shia community people the Anti Extremist Cell (AEC) of Crime Investigation Department (CID) on October 5 claimed to have arrested seven militants belonging to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), including the outfit's Karachi Chapter Chief Mehmood Babar, from Mauripur area of Karachi, the provincial capital of Sindh and recovered a heavy cache of weapons from their possession, reports Daily Times.

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In an attempt to foil a bid to commit massive killings as militants were planning to carry out major terrorist activities in Karachi, including invasion in Central Jail to get their accomplices released, and attacking their self-acclaimed rival Shia community people the Anti Extremist Cell (AEC) of Crime Investigation Department (CID) on October 5 claimed to have arrested seven militants belonging to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), including the outfit s Karachi Chapter Chief Mehmood Babar, from Mauripur area of Karachi, the provincial capital of Sindh and recovered a heavy cache of weapons from their possession, reports Daily Times. The others were identified as Fahim-ul-Haq alias Bihari, Tahir alias Mota, Abid alias Abbasi, Arif, Enayatullah alias Maya and Rafiq alias Inam. Mehmood Babar had also been arrested earlier and was released in 2008 after facing an imprisonment for at least seven years. The AEC chief Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Chaudhry Aslam claimed to have recovered 125 kilogrammes of highly explosive material, seven suicide jackets, a rocket launcher, six rocket shells, two Kalashinkoves, four TT pistols, three 9mm pistols, 50 feet detonator wire, three detonators and hundreds of bullets from their possession.

Event ID Date Country Storyhead
58170-115537-292701 10/6/2012 Pakistan AEC arrested seven LeJ militants foiling massive terror attacks on Central Jail and Shia Schools in Karachi
58170-115537-292701 10/6/2012 Pakistan AEC arrested seven LeJ militants foiling massive terror attacks on Central Jail and Shia Schools in Karachi

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