ISLAMABAD: Inspector General Police (IGP) Sindh Ghulam Hyder Jamali while briefing a meeting of the Standing Committee on Interior on Monday said that 100 per cent of all high-profile murder cases ─ including those of Parveen Rehman and Abbas Kumaili's son ─ have been solved.

He added that there has been a 98pc decline in cases of kidnapping for ransom and theft.

The Sindh IGP said that Daesh or the self-styled Islamic State and the banned sectarian militant group Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LJ) were linked to each other.

Referring to the Safoora attack suspects, he said they had been involved with Daesh for at least a year and had been receiving instructions from one Abdul Aziz located in Syria.

IS was behind Safoora attack

The former interior minister and the head of the Senate committee on the interior, Rehman Malik, said IS was “100 per cent” behind the Karachi attack, citing testimony from the Sindh provincial police chief to his committee.

“IS was 100 per cent involved in it, the attack was planned from Syria and the attackers were receiving orders from a Pakistani member of IS presently in Syria,” Malik said after the Monday meeting where the Sindh police chief testified.

“So far 14 people belonging to IS have been arrested in Pakistan.”

Malik said Abdul Aziz, the alleged mastermind of the attack, is from the city of Jhelum in Punjab province, and lived in interior Sindh for some time before moving to Syria.

Six laptops containing sensitive information which were recovered from the suspects have been decrypted, Sindh IGP said, adding that the development will help in the progress of the investigation. A 'hit-list' of to-be-targeted officials was also recovered from the Safoora suspects, he added.

Jamali said that during the past year, 166 Al Qaeda affiliated terrorists, 644 other terrorists and 186 members of Lyari gangs had been arrested in Karachi.

He said action had also been taken against the facilitators and doctors who had treated injured Afghan nationals in the city.

The IGP said that senior police official Chaudhry Aslam Khan, who was killed in January last year, had been targeted by Al Qaeda.

Chairing the meeting, PPP leader and Senator Rehman Malik constituted a sub-committee to probe the 'unknown Rangers' advertisement. He directed the sub-committee to find those responsible for the ad.

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Malik also said that Indian Hindu nationalist party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was a terrorist organisation, and that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the chief terrorist.

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