KARACHI – The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of Sindh Thursday released the ninth edition of its Red Book that includes at least 93 most wanted terrorists including Dr. Sadia Jalil, BBC reported Saturday.
Report of BBC cited that Dr. Sadia Jalil, a gynecologist and an educationist by profession, is the first Pakistani woman to get listed in the Red Book that contains the names of hardened terrorists and no ordinary criminals.
Jalil has been listed for being a part of terror outfit Al-Qaeda South Asia, she has been accused of aiding numerous terror plots including the 2015 Safoora shooting that left at least 46 people dead [all of the deceased were Ismaili Shia].
CTD Chief Omar Shahid Hamid while speaking with BBC Urdu confirmed that Jalil holds the title of the first woman to be included in the list of most-wanted terrorists.
Meanwhile, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has also released a list of most-wanted suspects but that list includes no woman. 93 most wanted terrorists, belonging to 10 different organizations, have been included in the Red Book. 12 of the terrorists are from Daesh, 18 from Al-Qaeda, 23 from Tehreek e Taliban, 4 from Ansarul Sharia, while Lashkar e Jhangvi 13 members, 2 from Jindullah, 24 Sipah e Muhammad, 4 Sindh Resolution Army, 5 BLA, and 33 of Lyari Gangsters.
The suspects are accused of attacking General Pervez Musharraf, carrying out suicide bombings, sectarian attacks, besides attacking an Ismaili community bus.
DIG Omar Shahid further added that Dr. Sadia is the third wife of Omar Kathio – the Al-Qaeda leader in the Indian Subcontinent. ‘She is the aunt of Abdullah Yusuf – the Daesh leader. The absconder has been affiliated with a private medical university in the port city’, he added.
CTD Chief further highlighted that news of her arrest in 2015 was reported in the local media, but he added that he didn’t find anything related to the arrest of Jalil in his official records. Jalil’s husband was directly involved in the Joint Investigation Report of the Ismaili community bus attack in the Sindh capital.
The statement further added that after the arrest of terror suspect Abdul Rehman, his brother-in-law and Jalil’s husband, Omar Kathio was then appointed as the local leader of Al-Qaeda.
