KARACHI— Police and intelligence agencies have arrested the “mastermind” behind last month’s deadly assault on a Pakistan Rangers (Sindh) headquarters in Karachi. Officials revealed that the attack was planned, funded, and coordinated directly from safe havens in Afghanistan.
The assault on the Gulistan-i-Jauhar camp on June 27 left three security personnel martyred and four others wounded.
Addressing a joint press conference on Tuesday, Sindh Home Minister Ziaul Hassan Lanjar and City Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Irfan Bahadur confirmed the arrest of the mastermind, identified as Qari Basheer (alias Qari Habib), during a targeted sweep by Rangers.
🚨کراچی میں رینجرز کیمپ پر حملے میں ملوث چار دہشتگردوں میں سے تین افغان شہری تھے، جبکہ ایک کا تعلق باجوڑ سے تھا۔ دہشتگردوں کے ہینڈلرز افغانستان سے انہیں ہدایات دے رہے تھے۔
وزیر داخلہ سندھ ضیاء الحسن لنجار pic.twitter.com/k3YwcxPnEo— The Khyber Chronicles (@TKCkhyber) July 14, 2026
SSP Bahadur revealed that the cross-border operation was executed in four distinct phases. The attackers received training in Afghanistan, were smuggled into Karachi, received real-time guidance and logistical support from handlers across the border, and were supplied with suicide vests and automatic weapons once inside Pakistan.
“All their handlers were guiding them from Afghan soil to cause maximum damage in the city, take hostages, and spread public terror.” — Ziaul Hassan Lanjar, Sindh Home Minister
Interrogations and recovered communications have tied the plot directly to the top leadership of banned outfits operating across the border, including Fitna al-Khawarij(the government’s term for the TTP) and its affiliate, Jamaatul Ahrar (JuA). High-ranking leaders based in Afghanistan — including Noor Wali, Sher Wali, and Saeed Shah — personally directed the mastermind, Qari Basheer, to launch strikes in Karachi.
The hit team included Janaan, the suicide bomber from Farah province, Afghanistan; Bilal (alias Hadi) from Bajaur, later based in Kandahar (killed); Umer Farooq from Kunar province (killed); and Usman Sher Mohammad from Nangarhar, who was captured alive in injured condition.
According to police, the captured attacker, Usman, confessed that the group was selected from religious seminaries in Kunar and sent to specialized militant training camps in Afghanistan before being facilitated across the border into Karachi. Security agencies confirmed that sweeps are ongoing to neutralize any remaining local facilitation cells.
