Al-Zawahiri hiding in Karachi with ISI aid

TIL Desk/World/Washington/ Egyptian-born Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, one of the world’s most wanted terrorists, is most likely hiding in Karachi under the protection of Pakistan’s notorious spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence, a United States media report said.

‘Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency has been protecting al-Zawahiri, a trained surgeon, since US forces evicted Al-Qaeda from Afghanistan in late 2001,’ In a major investigative story claiming that its information is based on several authoritative sources.

‘His most likely location today, they say: Karachi, the teeming port city of 26 million people on the Arabian Sea,’ the weekly said. This is for the first time in several years a news report has surfaced about the hiding location of the Al-Qaeda chief, who is Osama bin Laden’s mentor and successor.

“Like everything about his location, there’s no positive proof,” Bruce Riedel, a 30-year Central Intelligence Agency veteran who was the top adviser on South Asia and the Middle East for the past four US presidents, told.