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By B. Muralidhar Reddy
A file photo of Amjad Farooqi, who was killed near Karachi on Sunday.
ISLAMABAD, SEPT. 27. Pakistan has confirmed that Amjad Farooqi, the alleged mastermind of the two abortive attempts on the life of the President, Pervez Musharraf, has been gunned down on Sunday morning in an encounter in Nawabshah in Sindh province. Gen. Musharraf, currently on a tour of Netherlands, told reporters in The Hague that the killing of Farooqi is a major success for the Pakistani forces engaged in the fight against terrorism and asserted that the Government was determined to tackle the menace.
Mastermind
The Interior Minister, Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao, in a statement said Farooqi was the mastermind of the two attempts on the life of Mr. Musharraf. He was Pakistan's most wanted terrorist with a Rs 20-million (Pakistani) bounty on his head. The Minister said when encircled by the police, he tried to use women and children as human shields but was killed. Six persons, suspected to be associates of Farooqi, have been taken into custody and their interrogation is in progress. Mr. Sherpao said Farooqi, a proclaimed offender, was involved in a number of terrorist activities. He is also an accused along with the three others in the case related to the kidnap and subsequent beheading of the American journalist, Daniel Pearl.
Close to Al-Qaeda
Farooqi was reportedly a close associate of the regional head of the Al-Qaeda, the Libyan national Abu Faraj, and was also involved in the hijacking of an Indian plane. Farooqi had been on the run after being indicted over the January 2002 murder of Daniel Pearl. He was also considered to be very close to Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the British-born militant convicted of plotting Pearl's abduction and murder. He joined the Harkatul Jihad-e-Islami militant group and made a name for himself running militant training camps alongside Al-Qaeda in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan in the 1990s.
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