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Afghanistan/South Asia
Terrorist killed in Kot Lakhpat shootout was 'most wanted'
2005-01-17
LAHORE: An Al Qaeda terrorist who was killed in a shootout with law enforcement agencies in Kot Lakhpat on November 25, 2004, has been identified as Abdul Salam alias Akbar, who was on the list of most-wanted terrorists and carried a Rs 10 million bounty on his head, sources told Daily Times on Sunday. Salam was an Afghan national and had settled in Karachi. He was allegedly involved in four terrorist operations across the country and had close links with notorious terrorists Akram Lahori, Wahab Afghani, Ataullah and Asif Choto. The police had arrested two of Salam's aides while three security personnel were injured in the shootout.

Salam had codenamed himself Muhabat Khan. The police had initially identified the body as that of Muhabat Khan's. "Salam had escaped from South Waziristan Agency along with one of his aides and took shelter in his friend's house in Kot Lakphat. The police met with stiff resistance when they raided the house and the terrorists fired more than 200 bullets at them," intelligence officials told Daily Times. An intelligence team arrested Muhammad Imran alias Bobby, a resident of Kot Lakhpat's Bhatti Colony, from Peshawar, after it intercepted Bobby's conversation with Salam on the wireless. The police made the raid after Bobby told them that he had given refuge to Salam in his house.
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