Police have nominated six terrorists, including banned Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA) commander Umar Qari, as masterminds of the attack and explosion targeting a Rangers transport company in Gulistan-e-Jauhar.
A case in this regard has been registered at the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) police station on the complaint of Rangers Sub-Inspector (SI) Asad Mahmood Khan.
The FIR [First Information Report] includes charges of terrorism, murder, attempted murder, damage to government property and vehicles, use and recovery of illegal weapons and explosive material and terrorist conspiracy.
According to the case details, a terrorist blew himself up at 8:10 pm on June 27 in front of Rangers personnel at the gate of the TC Building of the Rangers Workshop Company in Gulistan-e-Jauhar.
Three Rangers personnel on duty at the gate, Constable Riaz, Sepoy Dawood Parvez and Sepoy Abdul Qadir, were martyred in the blast.
The FIR states that as personnel moved toward the site, three armed terrorists carrying automatic weapons emerged from the site of the explosion and opened fire, also throwing hand grenades.
Special Force and Quick Reaction Force (QRF) personnel reached the scene soon after. Two terrorists were killed in the exchange of fire with security forces, while a third was injured and captured by Rangers personnel.
Police arrived during the operation and arrested the injured terrorist, who identified himself as Usman Ali. He named his slain associates as Umar and Abdul Hadi and identified the suicide bomber as Janan.
A large quantity of weapons, hand grenades and ammunition was recovered from the terrorist.
Government property and vehicles were damaged in the operation, and four Rangers personnel were injured and shifted to hospital.
The arrested terrorist told police that he belongs to Jalalabad in Afghanistan and had arrived in Karachi a week before the attack with his associates Janan, an Afghan national, Umar, also an Afghan national, and Abdul Hadi, a Pakistani national from Bajaur who has long been affiliated with a terrorist organisation in Afghanistan.
He said that they stayed at a temporary residence in Korangi with the help of local facilitators and carried out reconnaissance of the Rangers workshop during this period.
All four terrorists belong to the banned JuA were based in Afghanistan and were sent to Pakistan under a plan devised by commanders Umar Qari, Maulvi Ahrar and Abdul Wajid to target Rangers personnel.
They received terrorist training for the attack from JuA commanders Mullah Tahir Afghani, Mullah Abdul Manan and Umar Afridi, who are based in Afghanistan.
