Pakistani security forces have killed a senior Al Qaeda commander and detained his wife in an overnight raid on his hideout in the southwestern province of Balochistan, a provincial minister said on Sunday.
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The security forces also took the couple’s two young daughters into custody during the raid in Chaghi.
“Security personnel are interrogating the commander’s wife”, Bugti said adding that, “The al Qaeda commander had fled from neighboring Afghanistan to Pakistan eight or ten months back”.
Addressing a you simply push talk with, Home Affairs Minister Sarfaraz Bugti revealed that Omar Abdul Latif – pseudonym Luqman – was also endeavoring to produce various Qaeda Subis thatContinent Centre inside of the place.
Mr. Bugti said that Latif’s wife had also been arrested in the raid which was carried out on a intelligence tip off.
He said that two million rupees were put as head money for Luqman who was involved in several terror attacks in Punjab.
The minister said Lateef had established an Al Qaeda network and was supervising its “terrorist activities and providing travel and logistical facilities to terrorists in both Balochistan and south Punjab as well as in Afghanistan”.
He added that the situation in the province had now improved as result of successful actions by security forces.
“He was linked to the subcontinent chapter of the al-Qaeda”, he said.
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Islamabad intensified its anti-terror campaign after a December 16, 2014 attack on an army-run school in the city of Peshawar, which left some 150 people dead.
