Intelligence official Junaid ul-Hassan said that Jan is also accused in the 2011 terror attack on the Pakistan Naval Aviation Base Mehran and an attack on a security check post in Quetta’s Hazar Ganji area that killed more than 150 members of the Hazara Shia community.Įarlier in March 2019, Mansehra police had arrested five members of the outlawed TTP. In addition to being the primary suspect in the Pearl murder, the "commander" built his reputation orchestrating the planned assassination of then-President General Pervez Musharraf, also in that year, the murder of Sind police superintendent Chaudhry Aslam, and an attack on the staff of the French Embassy in Karachi.Īzim Jan is also the lead suspect in an attack on the Peshawar Pakistan Bus Terminal and multiple murders of police officials. Counter-terrorism official Behram Khan said that Jan is known as a deadly expert in improvised explosive devices. Apparently still active in terrorist pursuits, a senior official speaking on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to media, said that Jan was the master trainer of suicide bombers and that he was running a militant training camp in the area of Pak-Afghan border when he was arrested.ĭaniel Pearl was the South Asian Bureau Chief of The Wall Street Journal when he was kidnapped and beheaded by a self-proclaimed Islamist group in the southern city of Karachi in 2002. (Photo: AP)Azim Jan was the final fugitive of the group that was involved in the abduction and murder of Daniel Pearl. The photo posted by Daniel Pearl's abductors just before they murdered him.
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