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2015-02-16 India-Pakistan
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Mastermind of Shikarpur carnage killed in Quetta
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 [DAWN] Security forces on Sunday claimed to have killed a senior commander of banned Death Eater outfit, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
‐ Usman Saifullah ‐ who they said was believed to be the criminal mastermind of the devastating Shikarpur imambargah attack which killed 61 people this month.
A security official who declined to be named owing to the sensitivity of the matter told Dawn.com that the Frontier Corps, accompanied by personnel of intelligence agencies, conducted a raid at a hotel near Gahi Khan Chowk area of Sariab road in Quetta.
"The Death Eaters hiding inside the hotel retaliated and an exchange of fire took place between the Death Eaters and security officials which left two Death Eaters dead -- including [LJ commander] Usman Saifullah."
The security official said the dead commander was involved in assassinations of Hazara community members, and was believed to be the criminal mastermind of recent bombing in Shikarpur.
Five security personnel also sustained bullet wounds during the exchange of fire. The security official described the condition of two injured FC personnel as serious. He further said that one Death Eater was also taken into custody by security forces during the targeted raid.
Saifullah was a wanted terrorist who had beat feet from the Anti-Terrorist Force Jail in Quetta Cantonment in 2008. He was implicated in multiple cases involving murder, especially of Shia Hazaras. The Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
Home Department had announced Rs2.5 million head bounty for his capture.
Intelligence sources also said the commander had close contacts to both al Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban.
After the raid, security was beefed up in different parts of Quetta in anticipation of blowback from the killing of the LJ commander.
The raid today is part of larger security efforts being made in Quetta and other parts of Balochistan following the Army Public School attack in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
on December 16, 2014.
Earlier, intelligence agencies and officials investigating the Shikarpur imambargah attack had identified a Death Eater group operating in the Sindh and Balochistan border areas as those behind the deadly attack.
Based on the initial findings of the police investigation, the chief of the counter-terror unit of the crime investigation department, Raja Umer Khattab, had also hinted that the bombing in Shikarpur could be the handiwork of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi rather than Jundullah, whose spokesperson had grabbed credit for the attack.
Shikarpur is near the vast border area of Balochistan that lacks any significant security checks, a CID officer had stated.
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, the banned outfit blamed for deadly attacks on Shias and Hazaras, allegedly has forged ties with Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in a murderous campaign to wage sectarian warfare.
Since its inception in 1996, the faction has claimed to have killed thousands of Shias in bombings and shootings across Pakistain. 
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