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Baitullah Mehsud, LJ join hands in Karachi

* Newly formed group is headed by Raheemullah, who is accused of involvement in Allama Turabi’s murder besides several terrorist acts in Karachi

By Faraz Khan

KARACHI: Baitullah Mehsud, the defunct Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ) and other outlawed jihadi organisations have joined hands to pursue terrorist acts in Karachi, Daily Times learnt on Wednesday.

An intelligence agency official told Daily Times that Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud was in contact with various groups in Karachi. The newly established group is presently headed by Raheemullah alias Naeem alias Ali Hassan, son of Wilayat Khan. A resident of Street 3, Shehzad Cinema, Qasba Colony, Orangi Town, Raheemullah, 35, usually wears a Sindhi cap and has been affiliated with the LJ and Harkatul Mujahideen.

Raheemullah is accused of carrying out various terrorist acts in Karachi, including the assassination of Shia scholar and MMA Sindh leader Allama Hassan Turabi.The sources said that the law enforcement agencies have arrested several members of Raheemullah’s group, however, others are still at large and are now planning to sabotage the network cracking down on terrorists.

Daily Times learnt that Raheemullah established contact with Baitullah Mehsud and many Karachi-based activists, including Qari Abid Mehsud, Khalid Dare Walla, Mufti Ilyas, Colonel Tufaan, Qari Hussain Mehsud, Abdul Wahad Mehsud of Kunwari Colony in Metroville and Faizullah Mehsud, a resident of Sohrab Goth, have joined him.

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