Pakistan
Pakistan: Two terrorists trained in Syria arrested in Karachi
The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of the Sindh police has claimed to have arrested two terrorists, who underwent training in Syria, from the Pakistani city of Karachi.
The arrested people were identified as Syed Khurram Ali Kazmi and Syed Raza Ahmed Jafri.
The CTD also claimed to have seized two pistols, ammunitions and explosives from the two, reported The News International.
They were arrested during a raid conducted by CTD in collaboration with an intelligence agency in Karachi.
According to the CTD spokesman, Jafri is a former policeman who had been dismissed from the force in 1994, the newspaper reported.
The spokesman said the suspects had been receiving significant funds from abroad for terrorist activities.
He said that the two were associated with a special squad called ‘High-Value Target Killing’.
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