A top source revealed to Arab News that the documents seized from the raids at different localities of Lahore contained a hit list.
On top of this Al-Qaeda’s hit list in Pakistan was former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s name, the source added on condition of anonymity.
The tips on the cells in Lahore was provided by the surviving terrorist Moaz alias Amir Moavia, who was arrested by the commandos of Punjab’s elite force on May 28 during the attacks on two places of worship of the Ahmadi community in Lahore’s Garhu Shahu locality.
Punjab police had reportedly shifted Moaz to an unknown “safe house” where the joint team of police and various intelligence agencies is still grilling him, the source said. The raids at the different localities of Lahore have led to the arrests of educated youths who had received training in bomb-making, plantation of mines particularly anti-human mines, and creating suicide jackets designed as ‘women’s undergarments,’ while netting explosives over 30,000 kg, seven RPG rockets and rocket launchers, rocket propelled grenades, several hundred thousands rounds of AK-47 ammunition.
“We found a list of possible targets from one of the cells raided,” the source said, adding, “not only Nawaz Sharif but couple of other leading politicians’ names were on the list.”
The source said the arrested Al-Qaeda or Taleban operatives had received training in North Waziristan and Afghanistan.
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi had recently said that some major incidents have taken place in Lahore and woken the Punjab government up. He had also said, Pakistan’s next priority in the fight against the Taleban is the remote North Waziristan tribal region.
