KARACHI: Police and an intelligence agency jointly carried out a raid in Shah Latif Town and claimed to have arrested two suspects linked with the militant Islamic State group.

A police spokesperson said on Saturday that the held suspects — Mohammed Naeem alias Adil and Mohammed Shakil alias Waqas — were brothers and they were taken into custody from Kohi Goth.

The spokesperson said that illegal arms, a grenade and mobile phones were recovered from their custody. During initial probe, they revealed that they were involved in “brainwashing youths and sending them to Afghanistan for militancy training”. Later, the youths joined the IS and Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS).

Published in Dawn, July 10th, 2022