The January 30 blast hit the mosque in the Shikarpur district of the southern province of Sindh as hundreds of worshippers attended Friday prayers.
"We have been chasing Usman Saifullah Kurd since a long time. We finally got him yesterday and he was killed in the exchange of fire," Akbar Hussain Durrani, home secretary of the southwestern province of 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...
where Kurd was killed, told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"Kurd was a key commander of the Sunni hardliner group 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 ...
(LeJ) and was involved in the Shikarpur attack and many other major attacks in Sindh and Balochistan provinces, particularly against the Shiites and Hazara communities," he added.
Durrani said security forces received a tip that Kurd was having lunch at a restaurant in the city of Quetta, Balochistan's scenic provincial capital, where the LeJ group is particularly active.
"Kurd and his accomplices fired at the forces when they entered the restaurant, and in retaliation was killed along with another accomplice," he said.
"Two soldiers were also injured in the operation while another myrmidon was locked away
Please don't kill me!
alive."
A security bigshot in Quetta said Kurd was the main instigator behind the Shikarpur assault, and confirmed the details of the raid.
Hundreds of Shiites from the Hazara ethnic group have been killed in numerous attacks by the LeJ in Balochistan. The province is also rife with separatist militancy and is a no-go area for many Paks.
The sectarian violence has however now spread to the rest of the country as well. On February 13 a total of 22 Shiite Moslems were killed in the northwestern city of 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.
when three jacket wallahs attacked their mosque during main Friday prayers.
The country has stepped up its fight against forces of Evil since Taliban gunnies massacred more than 150 people, most of them children, at a school in Peshawar in December.