SUKKUR: Jacobabad police on Wednesday claimed that Balochistan Liberation Army commander Daren Shambhani Bugti and his close associate Ali Hassan Banglani were picked up and taken away by security agencies personnel on an intelligence report that they had planned to bomb the Peshawar-bound Khushal Khan Khatak Express originating from Karachi.

Jacobabad SSP Malik Zafar Iqbal Awan told a press conference in his office that three hand grenades, a rocket launcher, two Kalashnikov rifles, ammunition and explosives were seized from them during a raid carried out jointly by the police and intelligence agencies in the Channa Laro area in Thull town.

Quoting the intelligence report, the SSP said that the terrorist attack was planned to mark the ninth death anniversary of Jamhoori Watan Part founder leader Nawab Akbar Bugti.

“The suspects were taken away by secret agencies personnel to an undisclosed place for interrogation and, as such, no case was registered at the A-Section police station, within whose jurisdiction the raid was conducted,” the SSP said.

Published in Dawn, August 27th, 2015

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