Hats off to our security agencies who have helped capture a high profile Al Qaeda leader. These foreign scumbags use our soil for their napak activities. These cowards have hit our FC personnel in a hope to break their resolve. I hope they will never be successful and our jawans will continue to clean our country from these insects..
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Twin suicide blasts kill 20 in Quetta
Updated 8 minutes ago
QUETTA: Twin suicide bombs targeting security forces responsible for this week capturing senior Al-Qaeda operatives killed more than 20 people and wounded 40 others in Civil Lines, Quetta Wednesday, Geo News reported.
According to DIG Police Operations Hamid Shakil, one attacker detonated his bomb-laden car outside the residence of the deputy chief of the Frontier Corps (FC) in Quetta city, before a second attacker blew himself up inside the house.
More than twenty people were killed including three FC personnel, wife of DIG FC Farrukh Shehzad and Col Khalid and two children. Forty others sustained injuries, hospital sources added.
The DIG FC house was badly damaged while DIG FC himself is injured.
Director Civil Defense said that more than 100 kg of explosives were used in the twin blasts.
Rescue teams reached the spot to shift dead bodies and injured people to the civil hospital, Quetta meanwhile security forces cordoned off the area and investigations are underway.
The residence of the deputy inspector general is close to other government buildings and official residencies in the city including governor and chief minister houses while treasury office is also located in the same area.
On Monday the army announced it had arrested a senior Al-Qaeda leader believed to have been responsible for planning attacks on the United States, Europe and Australia.
Younis al-Mauritani was picked up in the suburbs of Quetta along with two other high-ranking operatives after US and Pakistani spy agencies joined forces, according to the Pakistan army.
It named the two other senior operatives as Abdul Ghaffar al-Shami and Messara al-Shami.
The United States also praised the operation with a White House spokesman calling it an example of partnership between the two countries “which has taken many terrorists off the battlefield over the past decade”.
Mauritani does not feature on either the US FBI list of most wanted terrorists or the US Treasury Department’s own list of global terrorists.
But Western intelligence officials from two separate countries confirmed Mauritani was part of Al-Qaeda’s top team and linked to threats against Europe.