KARACHI: Police claimed on Sunday to have arrested seven members of Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, a proscribed organisation involved in attacks on former president Gen Pervez Musharraf and former prime minister Shaukat Aziz.

The suspects were arrested in the Defence View area on Saturday night, CID DIG Saud Mirza said at a press conference.

According to him, the accused surrendered themselves to law-enforcement agencies without putting up resistance.

The DIG said that one of the accused, Shahzad, was a close associate of Amjad Farooqi and was involved in attacks on Gen (retd) Musharraf and Shaukat Aziz.

Police also seized three suicide jackets, 15 kilograms of explosive material, four AK-47 rifles, four pistols, two gas masks, five kilograms of ball bearings, 200 rounds of bullets, electric wires, remote controls and batteries.

Police also found about one and half kg of heroin. The accused smuggled drugs to foreign countries to generate funds for purchasing arms and ammunition and supporting families of their accomplices who were killed or were under detention.

They also used to provide money to the Quetta-based Taliban commander Abdul Samad.

Those arrested were Muhammad Aziz alias Salman, Muhammad Shahzad alias Pehlwan, Ghulam Muhammad alias Umar, Shahbaz alias Mian, Alam Zeb alias Huzaifa, Shakil Ahmed and Khalil Ahmed Toori.

The DIG said that Khalil Toori is a brother of Qasim Toori, a Jundullah activist arrested after an encounter in Shah Latif town of Bin Qasim area in January last year.

Police said that several government officials and police officers were on the hit-list of the accused who had received training in camps in South Waziristan.LINK