ISLAMABAD: Pakistani defense forces have arrested elder al Qaeda operational Muhammad Ali Qasim Yaqub, alias Abu Sohaib Al Makki, in the southern port city of Karachi, the military said Tuesday.
“According to first round investigations, Al Makki is a Yemeni general and has been effective directly below Al-Qaeda leaders along Pak-Afghan borders,” the military’s media wing alleged.
“The capture of Al Makki is a major progress in unravelling the al Qaeda network operating in the region,” it said.
The detain follows a US covert maneuver in the fort city of Abbottabad near Islamabad on May 2 that killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, and comes a day after US senator John Kerry visited Pakistan to horizontal a damaging row caused by the raid.
Pakistan’s civilian and military privileged were left angry and embarrassed after the independent US assault that killed the Al-Qaeda chief, who had been living, possibly for years, two hours drive from the capital.
The forced entry rocked the country’s powerful defense institution, with its intelligence services and military widely accused of incompetence or collusion over the presence of bin Laden in a uptown house in Abbottabad.
Al Makki is it appears that not on the list of globally most wanted Al-Qaeda operatives but the military’s statement mentioned his network was operating in the district.
His capture came a day after a Saudi Arabian diplomat was killed in a hail of shot on his way to the Saudi consulate in Karachi.
heart Minister Rehman Malik blamed al Qaeda for the attack which was the second on Saudi interests in Pakistan’s biggest city in a lesser amount of than a week, media news believed.
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