WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump in his first address to Congress on Tuesday (4th March, 2025) thanked Pakistan for helping apprehend ISKP Cmdr Mohammad Sharifullah (aka Jafar), mastermind of August 2021 Abbey Gate suicide bombing at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai Int’l Airport that killed thirteen American service members and 170 Afghans while US military was hastily withdrawing from Afghanistan on the then president’s instructions.
Sources informed that Sharifullah was apprehended ten days ago in an Intelligence-Based Operation carried out by CIA and ISI. But he was transported to US on 4th March as informed by the president: “Tonight, I am pleased to announce that we have just apprehended the top terrorist responsible for that atrocity, and he is on his way here to face the swift sword of American justice. I want to thank especially the Govt. of Pakistan for helping arrest this monster.”
According to details CIA had given information to ISI apropos the presence of (a longstanding high-value target for US counter-terrorism) Mohammad Sharifullah Jafar near the Pak-Afghan border. Earlier, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, by means of telephone, had raised the matter with ISI Chief Lt. Gen Asim Malik. Later at the Munich Security Conference John Ratcliffe and Asim Malik again talked about the arrest of Afghan terrorist who had killed 13 Americans..
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