2 Aug 2015

Security Forces Have Killed Key Al-Qaeda Commander In Chaghi: Bugti

QUETTA: Pakistani security powers have killed a senior Al-Qaeda administrator and kept his wife in an overnight attack on his safehouse in Balochistan, Home Pastor Mir Sarfraz Bugti said Sunday. 
The security constrains likewise took the couple's two youthful little girls into care amid the attack in the Chaghi area. 


"A vital Al-Qaeda administrator - in particular Umar Lateef, a Pakistani national - was murdered in an experience with neighborhood security organizations," Bugti told columnists. 

The priest said Umar Lateef, his wife Tayyaba nom de plume Fareeha Baji, one sibling and two little girls both matured under five had lived in Chaghi for the last 8-10 months in the wake of moving from the Afghan fringe area of Nimruz. 

"Lateef was a senior administrator of Al-Qaeda for Balochistan and South Punjab districts," Bugti said. 

"His sibling Bilal succeeded in avoiding amid the assault, most likely to neighboring Afghanistan." 

Bugti said Punjab had offered a prize of two million rupees ($20,000) for Lateef and a large portion of a million rupees for his wife, who was head of Al-Qaeda's ladies' wing in South Punjab and Balochistan. 

The priest said Lateef had set up an Al-Qaeda organize and was regulating its "terrorist exercises and giving travel and logistical offices to terrorists in both Balochistan and South Punjab and also in Afghanistan". 

His wife is being examined by security authorities.