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Lashkar-e-Jhangvi fuehrer bumped off
  • A Pakistani militant wanted for the murders of 38 people, including a former foreign minister, was killed in a gun battle with police. The shootout that killed Shakeel Anwar was part of a wave of violence involving rival Muslim groups. The clashes killed six other people -- a policeman and five Shiites Muslims.

    Anwar, leader of the outlawed Sunni group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, was killed in eastern Punjab province after he fired on a police patrol. He was wanted in the killings of scores of Shiites and in the 1997 fatal shooting of Mohammed Ali Rahimi, director of an Iranian cultural center in Multan. Anwar also was sought in last July's slaying of former Foreign Minister Mohammed Siddque Kanju, who was shot dead along with another former legislator during an election campaign in Punjab. He was also suspected in the Oct. 28 attack on a Christian church in Behawalpur in which 15 worshippers and a Muslim guard were slain.
    Somebody else will take his place. The cops have his predecessor in custody - maybe they'll let him out on good behavior to take over again.
    Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-03-11
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