ISLAMABAD, May 24: A man who went missing in 2011 and was later found in the custody of intelligence agencies has been accused of actively working for two proscribed terror outfits and raising funds for them.

According to a confidential report submitted by the additional home secretary of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday, Rana Amir was the deputy chief of the outlawed Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LJ) and Harkatul Jihad Al-Islami in his hometown of Rahim Yar Khan.

He was also allegedly involved in a number of terrorist activities and sectarian attacks. Besides, the accused also allegedly raised funds to hire well-known lawyers to defend under-trial terrorism suspects.

The report said Amir was a diehard militant and took part in sectarian violence and terrorist activities.

According to the report, Amir was running a dairy farm in Rahim Yar Khan and was working with LJ and HJI with code names. He got early education in seminaries of Rahim Yar Khan. In 1998, the suspect got 40-day terrorism training from notorious militant, Ilyas Kashmiri.

In 1999, he went to Jalalabad, Afghanistan, where he also got training from a militant group, Harkatul Tauheed, at Al-Asar camp.

The report said after getting the terrorist training, Amir stayed in the tribal areas with banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and later moved to Rahim Yar Khan where the proscribed organidations - LJ and HJI - made him their deputy chief and also assigned him the fund raising job.

Later, he got actively involved in terrorist activities. Besides, Amir was a facilitator and financier of TTP and used to provide refuge to terrorists.

It may be mentioned that since 2010 the accused had been acquitted in over 100 terrorism-related cases, including over a dozen high-profile cases, as he hired famous and well-known lawyers.

On the other hand, public prosecutors were unable to compete the well-known lawyers because of flawed investigation, fear and meager remunerations.

The report also claimed that Amir had executed a deadly attack on a convoy of security forces near North Waziristan in 2011.

On May 15, the KP government officials produced the suspected terrorist before IHC Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui and said security forces had arrested him from the Khajuri checkpost near North Waziristan Agency in 2012.As per the internment order, the security forces while arresting him recovered six hand grenades, a suicide jacket, an AK-47 rifle and 180 bullets from his possession.

On the other hand, during an earlier proceeding on May 15 the accused informed the court that intelligence agencies had picked him from his dairy farm in Rahim Yar Khan on February 10, 2011.

According to his statement, the agencies’ personnel initially kept him in Bahawalpur for five months in a solitary confinement and then shifted him to Lahore from where he was taken to Peshawar. Finally, he was shifted to Lakki Marwat in a helicopter.

He claimed that the security agencies had also kept more than 500 detainees at the Lakki Marwat internment centre.

According to the petition filed by Rashida Amir, the spouse of Amir, he was running a dairy farm in Rahim Yar Khan district for the last several years. According to advocate Wajihullah, the petitioner’s counsel, Amir went missing in February 2011.

The petition for his recovery was filed with the IHC on May 28, 2012, after his family failed to trace his whereabouts with the help of the police.

Deputy attorney general Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri, representing the federal government, contended before the court that Amir was not a missing person as he was in the lawful custody of a security agency under the Action in Aid of Civil Power Regulations 2011 in the internment centre which was notified by the KP governor.

He said Amir was arrested at the Khajuri checkpost and was detained in Lakki Marwat which falls in the territorial jurisdiction of Peshawar High Court (PHC). He said the IHC had no jurisdiction to take up the matter for his release or recovery.

After examining the report and hearing the DAG’s arguments, the judge directed the KP additional secretary to produce the documents related to the trial of the suspect and adjourned the hearing till the first week of June.