Lahore, Jan. 6 (ANI): The United States has sought from the Pakistani government an early arrest and extradition of Ilyas Kashmiri, the fugitive chief of the pro-Kashmir Jihadi group, Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJI), in connection with the assassination of seven CIA agents in Afghanistan's Khost province.
Kashmiri is being accused of coordinating a suicide attack on the CIA Forward Operating Base on December 31, 2009, which killed seven CIA officers and injured six others.
Earlier, a Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman had claimed responsibility for the attack, saying that the TTP had managed to infiltrate the base with the suicide bomber, who was disguised as a soldier of the Afghan National Army.
According to sources in Islamabad, the suicide bombing mission had been planned in the North Waziristan tribal area, which is allegedly sheltering hundreds of the fugitive al-Qaeda and Taliban militants wanted by US intelligence agencies.
And the human bomb, who exploded himself at the CIA base in Khost is believed to have been dispatched by Kashmiri.
Sources added that Pakistani authorities are already trying to hunt down Kashmiri for his involvement in several terrorist activities carried out in different parts of Pakistan.
The No 4 on the most wanted list of the Pakistani Interior Ministry, Kashmiri has spent several years in an Indian jail. (ANI)
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