KARACHI, Aug 15: Police claimed to have arrested three more suspects, involved in July 14 assassination of Allama Hasan Turabi, from Garden area on Tuesday. Tehrik-i-Islami Sindh chief Allama Hasan Turabi and his nephew Ali Imran were killed in a suicide attack on July 14 in front of their Abbas Town residence.
A senior official of the AVCC said that the suspects were nabbed in an early morning raid at their hideout in Garden area. They were identified as Akbar Khan, Muhammad Ashraf and Muhammad Saleem.
The AVCC official described Ashraf as a suicide bombing trainer. Police also claimed to have recovered arms and ammunition from the suspects.
Following the Tuesday’s arrests, the total number of arrests in Allama Turabi case has reached to eight.
On July 25, police showed three arrests followed by two more arrests the next day. All the arrests were made by the Anti-Violence Crime Cell.
The suicide bomber was a 16-year-old youth of Bangladeshi extraction as described by the IG Sindh at an earlier press conference, but was in fact of Burmese origin as later described by Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, during his recent to Karachi.
His name was Abdul Karim. But he also had fictitious names of Mohammad Karim and Qasim, police sources said.
