BEIRUT — The captured leader of an outlawed militant group that has waged a years-long campaign of bombings and killings against Iranian authorities might soon be handed over to Tehran, Pakistani and Iranian media reported Saturday.
Abdul-Rauf Rigi, described as the leader of the Sunni ethnic Baluch group Jundallah, was arrested along the Iran- Pakistan border Wednesday and might be handed over to authorities in Shiite-run Iran after he is interrogated in Pakistan, Pakistani media reported.
Jundallah claims to represent Iran’s ethnic Baluch minority, a mostly Sunni people with a distinct language straddling the border areas between southeastern Iran, southwestern Pakistan and a corner of Afghanistan.
The U.S. recently placed Jundallah on its list of blacklisted terrorist organizations.
Denver Post wire services
