Captured militant planned to hit elections: officials
Officials said on Wednesday that a key al Qaeda-linked militant captured in a shootout in Karachi planned to launch terrorist attacks on rallies for next month’s elections. In Karachi, officials said Qasim Toori, a wanted member of the extremist group Jundullah, was wounded and arrested after a raid on his hideout city late on Tuesday. Three militants and two policemen also died in the ensuing gunbattle — but Sindh province home minister Akhtar Zamin said an earlier interior ministry announcement that Toori was among the dead was incorrect. “Qasim Toori is alive. He is in our custody and facing serious charges,” Zamin told AFP. Another three militants were detained, officials said. The two arrested militants were also sought in connection with a bomb attack the previous month outside the privately run Pakistan American Cultural Center in Karachi in which a guard died.
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