ISLAMABAD: The Capital Police on Friday arrested the mastermind behind the attacks on the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and the Rescue 15 offices in Islamabad.
The terrorist, identified as Jamshed Ahmad alias Tahir, had entered Islamabad to hit three targets, including sensitive installations in the Red Zone. The police seized a suicide jacket, containing eight kilograms of explosives and 5,000 ball bearings, and a detonator from him.
Jamshed Ahmad had planned to attack the Adiala Jail to get two arrested terrorists — Fidaullah and Khuram Shahzad — involved in the attacks on the Frontier Constabulary camp on the Margalla Road and the Special Branch Headquarters freed.
Islamabad Inspector General of Police (IGP) Syed Kaleem Imam disclosed this while
addressing a press conference at the Media Centre here. He said the arrest of the terrorist was a major achievement for the Capital Police in a situation when the nation was in a state of war.
Jamshed, who was produced before the media, responded to reporters’ questions and confessed to his involvement in attacks on the WFP office on October 5 and the Rescue 15 Headquarters on June 6. The suicide jacket seized from him was also presented.
Syed Kaleem said the hardcore terrorist was a key activist of the Ghazi Force, which was formed and operated by former students of Lal Masjid. While reading the statement of the alleged terrorist, he said the Ghazi Force was formed to avenge the Lal Masjid operation.
Kaleem said Jamshed belonged to the Mulla Rahim group and the Ghazi Force of Orakzai Agency and had also fought in Swat against security forces. “The thoroughly trained and instructed man, in his mid-20s, used to support the suicide bombers and provide them with weapons. His involvement has clearly been established in at least four suicide attacks in Islamabad,” he added.
He said Jamshed had used Muhammad alias Ilyas and Haroon as suicide bombers to attack the WFP office and the Rescue 15 Headquarters in Islamabad. “The police have also got key clues about the elements involved in firing incidents on military officials in Islamabad,” he added.
The terrorist, Kaleem said, reached Islamabad from the Orakzai Agency with a suicide jacket and stayed in Lake View Park near Rawal Dam to execute terrorist plans in Islamabad. He said DSP (CID) Ehsanullah, Margalla DSP Naeem Iqbal and SHO (Secretariat) Hakam Khan played a key role in the arrest.
Imam said Tahir first carried out monitoring activities around the WFP office for three days and later provided the FC uniform and a suicide jacket to the bomber. Rahimullah alias Halal had sent four suicide jackets and Rs 40,000 to Rawalpindi through Ibrahim for a facilitator, Asmatullah, on the Adiala Road during the month of Ramazan, he added. “Asmatullah was tasked to attack the Adiala Jail to free Fidaullah and Khuram Shahzad but he failed to accomplish the plan due to some reasons.”
Jamshed told the media that he got admission to the Jamia Faridia in E-7 at the age of 12. He later shifted to Muariful Islamia in F-8/3 and remained there for four years. “I was present in Lal Masjid when the operation started,” he said, adding he left Lal Masjid and moved to Karachi but could not get admission there. Consequently, he went to Attock and got admission to Taleemul Islam. In the meantime, he went to his ancestral village in Swat.
The terrorist said he had three targets in Islamabad and was waiting for his accomplices, the would-be suicide bombers coming from Orakzai Agency, to hit the targets. He said his responsibility was to facilitate the suicide bombers.
Tahir said he brought a suicide bomber from the headquarters of the Ghazi Force from Dabori village of Orakzai Agency. He also confessed to demolishing a girls’ school in Hazara village in Swat besides blowing up a bridge in which 12 soldiers embraced martyrdom and an attack on a military convoy in Sirseni village of Swat in which six soldiers were killed.
The alleged terrorist said his group used to kidnap wealthy people for ransom to meet their expenditures. “We kidnapped Najeebullah Afghani, the owner of a company transporting cement from Hayatabad to Afghanistan, for ransom and received Rs 10 million for his release,” he said, adding his group had also kidnapped 12 people of a rival religious sect from Kurram Agency and released them after getting ransom.
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