KARACHI, June 19: Abdul Rehman Baloch alias Rehman Dakait is being questioned by intelligence agencies after his arrest in Quetta on Sunday morning. Carrying a bounty of half a million rupees on his head and wanted in as many as 200 criminal cases in Sindh and Balochistan, Rehman was flown to Karachi on Sunday. However, after landing at the Karachi airport, he was handed over to officials of the intelligence agencies who, after initial investigations, reportedly took him to Islamabad.

“They are more interested in ascertaining his role in the on-going insurgency-situation in Balochistan and his Balochistan Liberation Army,” said reliable source.

It is expected that Rehman’s arrest will be made official soon after he is handed back to the Karachi police, the sources said.

However, officials of the Lyari Task Force remained silent over the arrest on Monday also.

Since his escape while being taken to court for a hearing in 1997, Rehman went underground but soon surfaced and regrouped in Hub Balochistan.

In early 2003, Rehman Dakait returned to Lyari as the head of a separate gang and started collecting extortion money from different inter-city bus terminuses in Lyari, hurting his arch rival Laloo’s interests.

At this stage Lyari descended into a gang war and witnessed tit–for-tat killings almost on a daily basis.

According to police, around 300 people have been killed in the Lyari gang war.