- Says Hyderabad jailbreak bid has been foiled
KARACHI, February 12: DG Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Lt. Gen Asim Saleem Bajwa has said Karachi operation will be continued till complete eradication of terrorism.
Addressing a news conference here on Friday, he said that terrorists’ havens have been washed out from the country, which helped reduce terrorism to a large extent.
Asim Saleem Bajwa said more than 13,000 intelligence based operations have so far been conducted countrywide against terrorists.
He said the operation Zarb-e-Azb helped in restoration of peace in the country. He added the successes achieved in operation Zarb-e-Azb are being acknowledged at international level.
The DG ISPR said that Rangers conducted about 7,000 operations in Karachi.
He said Al Qaeda sub-Continent and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi carried out major acts of terrorism in Karachi. Continued on page 7
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He said about 6000 criminals have been arrested and handed over to police including three extremely dangerous terrorists during Karachi operation. He said LeJ’s Naeem Bokhari and Sabir Khan, as well as Farooq Bhatti, deputy chief of al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), were captured by Pakistani forces in recent raids, military spokesman Lieutenant General Asim Bajwa said. Several of those arrested, including Bokhari, were in the advanced stages of planning a jailbreak attempt on the Hyderabad Central Jail, Bajwa said. -Online/ DNA
