SIALKOT: A special team of the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) on Wednesday night claimed to have arrested the district emir of a banned militant organisation from Mundeyki Goraya village, Daska during a raid.
Senior CTD officials told Dawn that Arshad Ali of the Jaish-i-Mohammad was wanted by the department in a terrorism case registered with them. Ali is also a former chairman of the Daska Municipality. The CTD has sent him behind bars for further interrogation.
Earlier, the CTD had also sealed religious seminary Jamia Al-Noor in the same village allegedly being run by JeM under Ali’s supervision during a crackdown on Jan 14 after the terrorist attack in Pathankot, India.http://www.dawn.com/news/1252006/district-emir-of-jem-nabbed-ctd
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