A 22-year-old law student, son of a dismissed Pakistan Army officer, has been arrested in connection with the killing of a senior prosecutor handling sensitive cases, including the Benazir Bhutto assassination and the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, police said on Friday.
Abdullah Umar, a student of the International Islamic University of Islamabad who had links with the Taliban, was arrested on Thursday after an intensive probe, Islamabad Police Chief Bin Yamin Khan said.
Umar is the son of former Pakistan Army Colonel Khalid Abbasi who was dismissed from service for links with a banned terror group.
Khan confirmed the arrest and said police had busted a terrorist network that was involved in several attacks in Rawalpindi and the federal capital.
Other officials said they had uncovered evidence linking Umar to the assassination of prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali in Islamabad on May 3. Reports said Umar was paralysed below the waist due to a bullet fired by the prosecutor’s bodyguard that had hit his spine.