Pakistan: Doctor held for suspected links with militants

Law-enforcement Agencies (LEAs) claim to have arrested some more people including a doctor on the suspicion of having links with the recently captured militants belonging to a network of the outlawed outfits.

Sources told Dawn that the LEAs had picked up a doctor who practices at his private clinic along Bhimbher Road near Qadir Colony on the basis of clues given by the arrested suspects.

The law enforcers are quizzing the arrested men who had been found involved in targeted killings during the last six months of 2013. A senior official of the University of Gujrat, Prof Shabbir Shah, Fazeelat Shah, policeman Sarfraz Ahmad and Dr Ataur Rehman were among the victims.

The sources said the doctor in custody used to preach the importance of waging jihad (holy war). As far as other activists are concerned, it is being suspected that they might have provided logistic support to the militant network.

The police and agencies are working on the legal as well as criminal aspects of the cases of targeted killings to frame charges against the culprits to make prosecution case strong for the trial in the Anti-Terrorism Court of Gujranwala.