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Riggi may soon be handed over to Iran: report
Islamabad, Dec 26, IRNA - Abdul Rauf Riggi, borther and successor of the executed Abdolmalik Rigi, may soon be handed over to the Iranian authorities after being interrogated by Pakistani security agencies, reports in Pakistan said Saturday.
Abdul Rauf had actually succeeded his elder brother Abdolmalik Riggi following his arrest and subsequent execution in Iran last February.
Abdul Rauf was tracked down by Pakistani authorities through his wireless set while he was making a call on December 21 to a London-based newspaper from his Pak-Iran border area hideout in Balochistan region.
According to News daily of pakistan, Pakistani intelligence agencies made frantic efforts to track down Riggi, specially after the December 15 killing of 40 people in a deadly suicide bombing in the Iranian city of Chabahar.
Rigi was tracked down while he was making a call on his wireless set to the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat, a leading international Arabic newspaper, the News added.
Rigi was arrested during a brief commando operation and is to be handed over to Iran shortly after being interrogated by the Pakistani security and intelligence agencies, the report said.
The elder Riggi was captured in February 2010 in an operation by the Iranian authorities while he was spotted on a flight from Dubai to Kyrgyzstan.
The Iranian warplanes subsequently forced the commercial aircraft to land in Iran.
In a telephone call hardly 24 hours after the Chabahar attack, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had lodged a protest with his Pakistani counterpart President Asif Ali Zardari asking him to order his security forces to quickly arrest ‘known terrorists’ and deliver them to Iran, the News added.
President Zardari had assured his Iranian counterpart that Islamabad would not withhold any help in uprooting terrorism.
On December 20, the Iranian government hanged 11 members of Riggi’s terrorist group who were convicted of carrying out bombing attacks in Iran which had killed 15 policemen and 12 members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps.
In his call to the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, furious Abdulrauf Riggi had threatened Iranian authorities to execute one of the country's nuclear officials who was kidnapped by the terrorist group last October, if Tehran failed to immediately meet Rigi's demands for the release of over 200 militants being held in the Iranian jails./end
Abdul Rauf had actually succeeded his elder brother Abdolmalik Riggi following his arrest and subsequent execution in Iran last February.
Abdul Rauf was tracked down by Pakistani authorities through his wireless set while he was making a call on December 21 to a London-based newspaper from his Pak-Iran border area hideout in Balochistan region.
According to News daily of pakistan, Pakistani intelligence agencies made frantic efforts to track down Riggi, specially after the December 15 killing of 40 people in a deadly suicide bombing in the Iranian city of Chabahar.
Rigi was tracked down while he was making a call on his wireless set to the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat, a leading international Arabic newspaper, the News added.
Rigi was arrested during a brief commando operation and is to be handed over to Iran shortly after being interrogated by the Pakistani security and intelligence agencies, the report said.
The elder Riggi was captured in February 2010 in an operation by the Iranian authorities while he was spotted on a flight from Dubai to Kyrgyzstan.
The Iranian warplanes subsequently forced the commercial aircraft to land in Iran.
In a telephone call hardly 24 hours after the Chabahar attack, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had lodged a protest with his Pakistani counterpart President Asif Ali Zardari asking him to order his security forces to quickly arrest ‘known terrorists’ and deliver them to Iran, the News added.
President Zardari had assured his Iranian counterpart that Islamabad would not withhold any help in uprooting terrorism.
On December 20, the Iranian government hanged 11 members of Riggi’s terrorist group who were convicted of carrying out bombing attacks in Iran which had killed 15 policemen and 12 members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps.
In his call to the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, furious Abdulrauf Riggi had threatened Iranian authorities to execute one of the country's nuclear officials who was kidnapped by the terrorist group last October, if Tehran failed to immediately meet Rigi's demands for the release of over 200 militants being held in the Iranian jails./end
