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Qari Mohammad Zafar
Up to $5 Million Reward
Qari Mohammad Zafar is wanted for questioning in connection with the March 2, 2006 bombing of the U.S. Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan.
The attack killed three Pakistani citizens and David Foy, a U.S. diplomat. Zafar is suspected of being a key figure involved with this attack.
Al Qaeda-linked suspects emerge in Islamabad Marriott attacks
Two senior al Qaeda and Taliban-linked Pakistani terrorists are suspected of being behind the Sept. 20 (2008) bombing at the Marriott hotel in Islamabad. The deadly attack killed more than 50 Pakistanis and foreigners and wounded more than 270, and destroyed the once-popular hotel.
In recent press reports, Qari Saifullah Akhtar, the leader of the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami, and Qari Mohammad Zafar, a leader of the Laskhar-e-Jhangvi, have both been implicated as being the mastermind of the Marriott bombing. Both men have extensive ties to al Qaeda and the Taliban, and have been in Pakistani custody until recently.
(CBS/AP) Febr. 24, 2010 – A Taliban commander wanted in the deadly 2006 bombing of the U.S. consulate in Karachi was killed in a suspected CIA missile strike in northwest Pakistan, officials said — the latest blow in a crackdown on militants in the region.
Mohammed Qari Zafar was among at least 13 people killed when three missiles slammed into a compound and a vehicle in the Dargah Mandi area of the North Waziristan tribal region on the border with Afghanistan, two Pakistani intelligence officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.
It was the latest strike in an intensified U.S. campaign to take out Taliban and al Qaeda leaders believed to be sheltering in the lawless border region with missiles fired from unmanned drone aircraft. At the same time, Pakistani intelligence forces have cracked down on Afghan Taliban in the country, arresting more than a dozen top leaders in the past few weeks.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
