{"id":6805,"date":"2023-09-22T21:40:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T21:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/ctd-official-links-recent-spate-of-targeted-killings-in-karachi-to-enemy-country\/"},"modified":"2023-09-22T21:40:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T21:40:20","slug":"ctd-official-links-recent-spate-of-targeted-killings-in-karachi-to-enemy-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/ctd-official-links-recent-spate-of-targeted-killings-in-karachi-to-enemy-country\/","title":{"rendered":"CTD official links recent spate of targeted killings in Karachi to \u2018enemy country\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Sindh Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) official claimed on Friday that a series of murders carried out in Karachi in the past few months were linked to an \u201cenemy country\u201d and the police are closely examining the matter.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is targeted killing under a planned conspiracy,\u201d Raja Umar Khattab, a senior officer in the CTD, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

While the official did not refer to specific murders or name a country in his statement, the remarks come weeks after the murders of two clerics in separate attacks.<\/p>\n

Ziaur Rehman, the administrator of the Jamia Abi Bakar madrassah in Gulistan-i-Jauhar, was murdered on September 12 and on September 6, Qari Khurram Shahzad, a seminary teacher was fatally shot<\/a> in North Nazimabad.<\/p>\n

The police had said then that they suspected<\/a> the involvement of the Indian spy agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). They had said that the murders were ostensibly aimed to incite violence as they coincided with the arrival of the holy month of Rabiul Awwal.<\/p>\n

According to Khattab, the police were carrying closely examining the evidence, and soon the culprits and their accomplices would be tracked down.<\/p>\n

The Karachi police had last week said<\/a>: \u201cCTD has collected evidence of the incident, while during the preliminary investigation, evidence of the involvement of the intelligence agency of our neighbouring country, RAW, has been found in the incident,\u201d it said, without elaborating further.<\/p>\n

Hostile agencies<\/h2>\n

RAW\u2019s involvement was suspected in the killing<\/a> of a Jamaatud Dawa-linked person in Azad Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s Rawalakot area last week.<\/p>\n

Late last month, the Punjab Inspector General (IG) Dr Usman Anwar said that the police had unearthed a \u201cnetwork of hostile intelligence agencies<\/a>\u201d that were allegedly involved in the recent incidents of blasphemy across the country.<\/p>\n

On August 16, a violent mob<\/a> of hundreds ransacked and torched nearly two dozen churches and attacked the residences of members of the Christian community and the office of the local assistant commissioner in Jaranwala.<\/p>\n

He said the aforementioned events were a \u201cconspiracy\u201d to \u201cdivert attention\u201d from the communal clashes in India\u2019s Manipur state.<\/p>\n

But unlike the Indian state\u2019s response, Anwar continued, Pakistani officials, civil society and scholars helped and supported Christian victims and spoke up against the injustice.<\/p>\n

Karachi police also arrested<\/a> an alleged Indian spy and his local facilitator in Lyari on August 23.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Sindh Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) official claimed on Friday that a series of murders carried out in Karachi in the past few months were linked to an \u201cenemy country\u201d and the police are closely examining the matter. \u201cThis is targeted killing under a planned conspiracy,\u201d Raja Umar Khattab, a senior officer in the CTD, said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/_img\/social-default.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}