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India-Pakistan
TV channel office attack: two ‘IS’ men arrested
2016-11-12
[DAWN] LAHORE: The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of police claimed to have locked away
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
two members of a Death Eater organization involved in attacking the bureau office of a private news channel in Sargodha last year.

Some unidentified attackers had hurled a grenade at the Sargodha bureau of Express News channel on Dec 7, 2015 in which a security guard was injured and the building was also damaged.

A CTD front man said their team in Sargodha conducted a raid near Chungi No 9 and arrested two suspected members of the Death Eater Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group and recovered two hand grenades, kaboom, four detonators, one pistol and a cycle of violence.

The suspects were identified as Zeeshan Mehboob and Zahidur Rehman who were shifted to some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location for interrogation.

He said a case was also registered against the suspects at the CTD Police Station.

Last year, the Lahore office of Din News and Faisalabad
...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after...
office of Dunya News were attacked in which three employees were maimed.

On Nov 30, unidentified gunnies attacked a Dawn News Digital Satellite News Gathering van in Essa Nagri, Bloody Karachi
...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...
leaving one staffer injured.

The attacks were widely condemned by all sections of society and journalist organizations had announced protests.

Posted by:Fred

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