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LAHORE:
Jundallah chief Abdul Rauf Riggi, who was tracked down by Pakistani
authorities through his wireless set while he was making a call to a
London-based newspaper from his Pak-Iran border area hideout in
Balochistan, may soon be handed over to the Iranian authorities after
interrogation by Pakistani security agencies.

According to
well-informed security officials in Islamabad, the Pakistani agencies
had been making frantic efforts to track down Riggi, especially after
the December 15 killing of 40 people in a deadly suicide bombing in the
Iranian city of Chabahar, when the most wanted Jundallah chief appeared
on their radar on December 21, making a call on his wireless set to the
London-based Asharq Al-Awsat, a leading international Arabic newspaper.

As
the call had given the Pakistani authorities a fair idea about Riggi’s
whereabouts on the Pakistani side of the Iranian border, they moved
quickly and detained him in the next 24 hours following a brief commando
operation.

Interestingly, the arrest came the day the Pakistani
and the Iranian presidents were in Istanbul at the Economic Cooperation
Organisation’s summit. Riggi will be handed over to Iran shortly after
being interrogated by the Pakistani security and intelligence agencies.

Abdul
Rauf Riggi had actually succeeded his elder brother Abdolmalek Riggi as
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