The Karachi chief of the banned Hizbut Tehreer (HuT) Siham Qamar was arrested during a raid in Gulshan-e-Iqbal on Friday, reported local media.
According to Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) Operation-I incharge SSP Usman Bajwa the suspect, , was working as a deputy general manager at K-Electric.
Addressing a press conference at his office in Police Headquarters, Garden, on Friday evening he said, “Qamar is a mechanical engineer and had access to educational institutions where he was spotted regularly. He used to attend social gatherings of influential people and propagate his group’s agenda.”
According to Bajwa, Qamar was given the task of recruiting qualified students to HuT and used to help his arrested comrades get released.
This was the second such arrest of a high-profile HuT member in Karachi during the Karachi operation. Earlier, HuT senior member Owais Raheel, an IBA graduate who used to teach at Szabist, was arrested from Boat Basin in the first week of October.