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| Pakistan police kill seven Taleban militants in Karachi |
| 2014-10-06 |
| [ARABNEWS] Pakistain police on Sunday killed seven Taliban ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , police said. The encounter took place in the Sohrab Goth area on the outskirts of the city after police received intelligence information about the presence of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) "There were up to 16 TTP gunnies present in the house when we raided it," senior local police official Rao Anwar said. He said the raid triggered a shootout, killing seven myrmidons, adding that three of them were involved in the liquidation of a senior Karachi police official Chaudhry Aslam in January this year. "These three Death Eaters, who had fled to another country after Aslam's murder but returned home just recently, were experts of making bombs and boom jackets," Anwar said. Police were trying to identify the four others who were killed. At least seven gunnies fled during the shootout, he said. The raid came two weeks after a senior police official Farooq Awan, who has been a key player in the police's fight against terrorist groups in the city since 2001, survived a car kaboom in Karachi. Karachi, a city of 18 million people, which contributes 42 percent of Pakistain's GDP, has been plagued by sectarian, ethnic and political violence for years. |
| Posted by:Fred |