- Title: PAKISTAN: MEMBER OF BANNED SECTARIAN GROUP ARRESTED
- Date: 22nd October 2004
- Summary: (W1) MULTAN, PAKISTAN (OCTOBER 20, 2004) (REUTERS) NIGHTSHOTS: 1. MV SUSPECT BEING BROUGHT TO MULTAN POLICE STATION; CAMERAS FLASHING; SCU SUSPECT WITH COVERED FACE AND POLICE OFFICIALS INSIDE POLICE STATION; CLOSE OF HOODED SUSPECT; MV SUSPECT AND POLICE OFFICIALS 0.43 2. SOUNDBITE (English) TALAT MEHMOOD TARIQ, DEPUTY INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE SAYING: "So our suspicion was found correct and he reached, he came to that property this morning, our people who were on duty there, they arrested him, and then we interrogated him. He told us that his actual name is Irfan Ali and he belongs to, originally belongs to a place, known as (indistinct)." 1.08 3. MV POLICE OFFICIALS DISPLAYING NUMBER PLATES, ELECTRICAL GADGETS, FAKE IDENTITY CARDS, POLICE SHIRT AND OTHER ITEMS FOUND DURING RAID; CLOSE OF NUMBER PLATES; MV POLICE OFFICIALS 1.41 4. SCU ELECTRICAL INSTRUMENTS AND EXPLOSIVES; SCU FAKE IDENTITY CARDS 1.53 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: MULTAN, PAKISTAN
- Country: Pakistan
- Reuters ID: LVA1SHAQ6ZZ4DOOV6YBP59Z6QXC1
- Story Text: Pakistan arrests member of banned sectarian group.
Pakistan arrested on Wednesday (October 20, 2004) another
suspect accused of being involved in a blast in the central
city of Multan which killed 42 people, officials said.
More than 100 people were wounded in the attack on
October 7 that targeted a rally marking the assassination
of Sunni militant religious leader Azam Tariq a year
earlier.
Syed Irfan Ali was arrested early on Wednesday (October
20) in a raid on his house, Talat Mehmood Tariq, Multan
city's deputy inspector general of police, said.
"Our people who were on duty there, they arrested him,
and then we interrogated him," Tariq told reporters.
He said Ali was an important catch and police were
looking for other suspects.
Intelligence sources said police recovered a laptop
computer from Ali who, they said, had expertise in
explosives and detonators.
The arrest follows the capture of Amjad Shah, who
belongs to the outlawed Shi'ite militant Sipah-e-Mohammad
group, and who police described as the attack's mastermind.
Police sources said Shah was arrested in the town of Toba
Tek Singh in Pakistan's Punjab province late on Monday
(October 18).
Sipah-e-Mohammad was banned in Pakistan in August 2001
while Azam Tariq's Sipah-e-Sahaba was among seven militant
groups banned by President Pervez Musharraf after he joined
the U.S.-led war on terror following the Sept. 11 attacks
on the United States in 2001.
Violence between Muslim sects is common in Pakistan.
Shi'ites make up around 15 percent of the population in the
overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim country of 150 million people.
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