Summary Three leaders of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) are on hit list of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - According to the sources, the intelligence agencies have informed the National Crisis Management (NCMC) Cell of Ministry of Interior that after the killing of SSP CID Chudhry Aslam, three leaders of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), including Dr Farooq Sattar, Nabil Gabol and Faisal Sabzwari are on the hit list of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
The sources added that it has not been mentioned in the information forwarded to the National Crisis Management Cell that when and where the TTP would carry out attack while the Ministry of Interior has put all departments concerned on high alert.
According to Federal Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid, Sindh government is responsible to provide security to the MQM leaders.
Talking to Dunya News, MQM leader Nabil Gabol said that personnel already deputed on his security had been withdrawn instead of tightening his security.
It is worth mentioning here that many political and social, and security personalities have been killed by the banned TTP during last five years.
Last week, SSP CID, Chaudhry Aslam and three other policemen from his squad were martyred in an explosion on Lyari Expressway near Essa Nagri in Karachi last Thursday. The blast occurred when a convoy of police vehicles was passing from Essa Nagri graveyard. SSP CID Chaudhry Aslam’s vehicle was targeted in the blast.
The banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Mohmand Agency had claimed the responsibility of the attack while for the first time a case had been registered against TTP chief Mullah Fazlullah and its spokesman Shahidullah Shahid for the alleged killing.
Former prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was Benazir Bhutto was assassinated after addressing an election campaign rally in a gun-and-bomb attack outside Rawalpindi’s Liaquat Bagh on December 27, 2007.
Pakistan’s minister for religious minorities Shahbaz Bhatti was shot dead by unknown gunmen in Islamabad on Marach 2, 2011.
The TTP had claimed responsibility for the killing, saying the minister had been “punished” for being a blasphemer.
Awami National Party (ANP) leader and Senior Minister Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Bashir Ahmed Bilour was assassinated in a suicide attack in Peshawar on December 22, 2012.
The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) had also claimed responsibility for the attack.
Three military officials including Major General Sanaullah, Lt Colonel Tauseef and Lance Nayak Irfan Sattar were martyred in Upper Dir area when a roadside bomb went off in Bin Shahi area on September 15 2013.
Again, the TTP had claimed responsibility for the killing of the army officials.
Besides suicide bombings at security installations and public places that killed innocent civilians and security officials, the militants have been threatening and targeting politicians, civil society personalities who have been raising voice against terrorism and advocating peace in Pakistan.
