Saudi Consulate employee gunned down in Karachi:
Relatives and residents carry the body of Hassan Al-Qahtani, a Saudi diplomat killed in Pakistan, outside the Grand Mosque in Riyadh on Tuesday. Gunmen on motorcycles shot and killed the diplomat in the Pakistani city of Karachi on Monday, the second attack on the mission since the killing of Osama Bin Laden increased tension in the region.
(Source:Arab News)
Pakistani volunteers place the bullet-riddled dead body of a Saudi diplomat on a hospital stretcher in Karachi.
(Source:alrabiya)
Four armed men shot dead an employee of the Saudi Consulate, Hassan M M Al-Khatani, while he was on his way to office in his car on Monday morning in the Defence Housing Authority. Earlier, on May 11, 2011, two armed terrorists had lobbed two hand grenades at the Saudi Consulate, an attack which had caused no casualties.
The deceased official had left his house for the consulate at the Gizri Road in his official car. When Al- Khatani reached the Khyaban-e-Shahbaz traffic signal, four armed men on two motorcycles opened fire at him, killing him on the spot.
The investigators said that the terrorists were four in number, carrying 9mm pistols. Al-Khatani received three bullet wounds on various parts of his body, including a bullet in his head, while three bullets hit the vehicle.
Saudi govt considering changing visa procedure:
Following a terrorist attack on the car of the Saudi Consulate on Monday, resulting in the death of an employee, the Saudi government is considering to change the visa procedure.
It is being done to restrict visitors at the consulate. Informed sources said that the visa procedure similar to that adopted by the US, UK and Canada, which is conducted through courier service, is being reviewed.
In this connection, the Saudi Consulate has made initial contacts with three courier services in Karachi. Presently, visa seekers of Haj and Umrah visit the consulate and apply for a visa, but the procedure could be changed and the courier staff will collect the visa applications.
Moreover, a vigilance force has been deployed around the consulate and the residences of the Saudi diplomats have put under high security. The law enforcement agencies have told the Saudi diplomats to keep their movements restricted and avoid attending social gatherings.
Four armed men shot dead an employee of the Saudi Consulate, Hassan M M Al-Khatani, while he was on his way to office in his car on Monday morning in the Defence Housing Authority. Earlier, on May 11, 2011, two armed terrorists had lobbed two hand grenades at the Saudi Consulate, an attack which had caused no casualties.
The deceased official had left his house for the consulate at the Gizri Road in his official car. When Al- Khatani reached the Khyaban-e-Shahbaz traffic signal, four armed men on two motorcycles opened fire at him, killing him on the spot.
The investigators said that the terrorists were four in number, carrying 9mm pistols. Al-Khatani received three bullet wounds on various parts of his body, including a bullet in his head, while three bullets hit the vehicle.
Saudi govt considering changing visa procedure:
Following a terrorist attack on the car of the Saudi Consulate on Monday, resulting in the death of an employee, the Saudi government is considering to change the visa procedure.
It is being done to restrict visitors at the consulate. Informed sources said that the visa procedure similar to that adopted by the US, UK and Canada, which is conducted through courier service, is being reviewed.
In this connection, the Saudi Consulate has made initial contacts with three courier services in Karachi. Presently, visa seekers of Haj and Umrah visit the consulate and apply for a visa, but the procedure could be changed and the courier staff will collect the visa applications.
Moreover, a vigilance force has been deployed around the consulate and the residences of the Saudi diplomats have put under high security. The law enforcement agencies have told the Saudi diplomats to keep their movements restricted and avoid attending social gatherings.
Al-Qaeda key operative Al-Makki nabbed:A senior leader of Al-Qaeda Mohammed Ali Qasim alias Abu Sohaib Al-Makki has been arrested from Karachi on Tuesday.
This was claimed in an ISPR’s press release. The spokesman to Pakistan Army said the security agencies conducted operation, which resulted in arrest of this key Al-Qaeda operative.
The claims made on the bases of findings following the preliminary investigation said that Al-Makki is hailing from Yemen.
It was also claimed that under investigation arrested Al-Qaeda’s key member, Al-Makki, was in constant contacts with other leaders of his outfit hiding at Pak-Afghan border.
Army sources termed arrest of Abu Sohaib a big success in war against Al-Qaeda.
AFP adds: Pakistani security forces have arrested senior Al-Qaeda operative Muhammad Ali Qasim Yaqub -- alias Abu Sohaib Al Makki -- in the southern port city of Karachi, the military said Tuesday.
"According to preliminary investigations, Al Makki is a Yemeni national and has been working directly under Al-Qaeda leaders along Pak-Afghan borders," the military's media wing said.
"The arrest of Al Makki is a major development in unravelling the Al-Qaeda network operating in the region," it said.
The arrest follows a US covert operation in the garrison 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 smooth a damaging row caused by the raid.
Pakistan's civilian and military leaders were left angry and embarrassed after the unilateral US assault that killed the Al-Qaeda chief, who had been living, possibly for years, two hours drive from the capital.
The raid rocked the country's powerful security establishment, with its intelligence services and military widely accused of incompetence or complicity over the presence of bin Laden in a suburban house in Abbottabad.
Al Makki is apparently not on the list of internationally most wanted Al-Qaeda operatives but the military's statement mentioned his network was operating in the region.
His arrest came a day after a Saudi Arabian diplomat was killed in a hail of bullets on his way to the Saudi consulate in Karachi.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik blamed Al-Qaeda for the attack which was the second on Saudi interests in Pakistan's biggest city in less than a week, media reports said.
Source:TheNews
Pakistan’s Al Qaeda-linked Taliban claimed responsibility on Monday afternoon for the killing earlier in the day of a Saudi diplomat who was in a car near the Saudi Arabia consulate in Karachi.
“We take responsibility,” a Taliban spokesman said by telephone from an undisclosed location.
Source:Al Arabiya “We take responsibility,” a Taliban spokesman said by telephone from an undisclosed location.
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