Shahid Solangi, a counterterrorism officer, said the early morning raid took place in the Patni area of the city of Sukkur in southern Sindh province.
He said the Death Eaters attempted to escape and opened fire on officers, triggering a shootout.
Solangi said two Death Eaters belonging to the Noor-e-Islam group of the Pak Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...were killed.
Solangi said the slain Death Eaters were involved in attacks on police and security forces in South Wazoo and other parts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province in the northwest.
He said the two men entered Sindh province in recent days and had been under surveillance of security agencies.
Pak Death Eaters have in recent months stepped up attacks on security forces in the former tribal regions in northwest and southwestern 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...
province, raising concerns that hard boyz are regrouping in various parts of the country.
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