According to the investigative sources Awais Jakhrani the militant who got killed, had taken training in Afghanistan 3 months prior to the attack. He was constantly in contact with his militant cohort while at the training.
The investigators have got hold of the record of Awais Jakhrani and his father Superintendent Police (SP) Ali Sher Jakhrani’s mobile phone data, which revealed that Awais had contacted his father quite a few times while Awais was in Afghanistan.
Sources reveal that the weapon recovered from the militants who attacked dockyard belonged to the police and was most probably used by SP Ali Sher Jakhrani, forensic report affirms.
Awais contacted many of his companions before the attack, sources added.
Taliban militants attacked a Karachi naval dockyard in a weekend raid which left a Pakistani officer and two insurgents dead, officials said Tuesday.
An officer and six sailors were also wounded in the attack early Saturday on the high security facility, a navy spokesman said, adding that four attackers had been captured alive.
After interrogating the suspects, the navy said in a statement that intelligence agencies had carried out raids to arrest suspected collaborators and accomplices and had recovered “a large quantity of arms and ammunition”.
The Pakistani Taliban on Tuesday claimed responsibility for the attack, claiming they had inside help.
“We claim responsibility for the attack on the navy in Karachi,” spokesman Shahidullah Shahid told AFP.
“We had support from inside the naval force for this attack. This operation was successful because of this support. We will continue targeting security forces like this in future also,” he added.
