TOBA TEK SINGH: Alleged terrorist Habibur Rehman who was killed in a ‘suicide grenade’ explosion when a team of law-enforcement agencies raided his house in Pirmahal on Thursday was buried in Gaushala graveyard here on Friday.

The bodies of a woman and two children who also died in the blast were buried in the same graveyard as no one turned up to claim them.

DPO’s spokesperson Inspector Shahbaz Ahmad Virk said the autopsy report received from the Toba DHQ Hospital had confirmed that the deaths occurred in grenade explosion. He said the deceased woman was the widow of Kashif, a resident of Chak 298-JB, Gojra, who also remained involved in terror activities along with Habibur Rehman.

Virk said Rehman had contracted marriage with Kashif’s widow Saira Bibi after he died in a road accident near Pirmahal eight months ago. He said two boys who died in the blast and the one survived, three-year-old Ibrahim, were Kashif ‘s sons.

Police summoned the stepmother of Kashif from Chak 298-JB and gave her Ibrahim’s custody.

When asked, Ibrahim could not tell the name of his deceased mother whom he called mama. He identified his deceased elder brothers as Zain and Hamza.

Pirmahal police arrested on Friday two more property dealers, Younus and Mahmood, who had signed as guarantors the rented house deed between Habibur Rehman and house owner Majeedan Bibi.

Earlier on Thursday, police had arrested property dealer Javed who brokered the deal.

Sources said Habibur Rehman was also involved in the July 28 attack on a police team on Jaranwala Road in Faisalabad in which a constable and a terrorist had died. Three other terrorists, including Rehman, had managed to flee.

They said Habibur Rehman and Kashif were the accomplices of Amjad Farooqi of Pirmahal who was killed in an encounter in Nawabshah, Sindh, in 2004. Farooqi had allegedly kidnapped and killed US journalist Daniel Pearl.

Published in Dawn, August 29th, 2015

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