A case of threatening phone calls from an unknown person claiming himself to be a ‘Taliban’ was registered with Green Town police on application of a local trader who claimed to have received a call asking him to cooperate in a bomb blast plan. Yousaf Qadri, in his application, had claimed that an unknown caller from the UAE had asked him to work as a courier for the Taliban and Sipah-e-Sahaba, which he had refused.
The caller said that he (Qadri) was a Muslim and had to fulfill his duty of waging a war against disbelievers. In another call, he was asked to meet a man named Shaikh Hassan with a green turban and black polythene bag and tell him the code number 555 otherwise his family would be killed. He was also warned of dire consequences if he contacted the police or failed to meet the man.
