KARACHI: A key character of the Lyari gang warfare, carrying head money of Rs1 million, was arrested on Wednesday after he returned home from a neighbouring country to organise his gang, police and Rangers said.

They said that Nisar Ahmed alias Mullah Nisar was arrested in a joint raid carried out in Lyari.

In a statement, a Rangers spokesperson described the held suspect as a “most-wanted” man involved in targeted killings, police encounters, terrorism, extortion, etc.

“He had been involved in all activities of Lyari gang warfare and banned Peoples Amn Committee,” the statement said.

He was part of the Rahman Dakait-led gang and in 2013 he joined Uzair Baloch. His name was included in the Counter-Terrorism Department’s most-wanted list and the Sindh government had announced a cash reward for his arrest, it added.

During initial grilling, he told investigators that he fled the country following a Rangers-led operation in Karachi on the basis of a fake computerised national identity card he got prepared in 2005 in the name of Mohammed Salam.

He fled to Dubai and later shifted to Iran in 2016. He recently came back and was organising his gang in Kara­chi when he was arrested, the statement added.

City SSP Shabbir Ahmed Sethar said in a statement that Mullah Nisar was arrested in Iran on charges of kidnapping for ransom and was sentenced to two-year imprisonment there.

He said he was an active “commander of Lyari gang warfare”, who had Rs1 million head money.

Published in Dawn, December 15th, 2022