KARACHI: Police on Friday claimed to have arrested a target killer involved in the murder of famed 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.
Capri 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. Capri was also part of a gang involved in nine major terror incidents in the city, police said.
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 Liaquatabad area in Karachi on June 22, 2016.
