KARACHI: Police on Friday claimed to have arrested a target killer involved in the murder of fam
ed qawwal Amjad Sabri.
The detained suspect, Raheel, was apprehended during a raid. The suspect was an accomplice of Asim Capri and allegedly affiliated with Lashkar-i-Jhangvi Naeem Bukhari group.
Ca
pri was Amjad Sabri’s neighbor who had been arrested by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) in the murder case of Sabri and other high-profile cases in November 2016 from Liaquatabad. Ca
pri was also part of a gang involved in nine major terror incidents in the city, police sa
id.
Police followed the lead through the arrested man, Capri, and apprehend Raheel. Police also recovered weapons from the detained suspect’s possession. Further investigation was underway. Amjad Sabri was gunned down by unknown assailants in the city’s Liaquat
abad area in Karachi on June 22, 2016.