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14 militants killed in encounters were ‘in custody of agencies’
 [DAWN] Al Qaeda leader Bilal Lateef alias Yasir Punjabi and 13 other suspected murderous Moslems who were killed in two ’encounters’ with the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of police in Multan and Muzaffargarh this week had been in the custody of law enforcement agencies for the past four months, sources said on Friday.CTD personnel bumped off eight suspects in Nawabpur, Multan, during a shootout late on Wednesday night and six, including Yasir Punjabi, in Mondka Chowk, Muzaffargarh, in the early hours of Friday morning. A source in an intelligence agency told Dawn on Friday that the suspected snuffies were tossed in the slammer Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! by the Bahawalpur CTD in joint operations with the Military Intelligence (MI) and the Inter-Services Intelligence ...the Pak military intelligenceagency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir... (ISI) from different parts of Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard 2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers 3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... during winter. The sources claimed that Yasir Punjabi, a resident of Lahore, was head of the Punjab chapter of Al Qaeda and the interior ministry had proposed a reward of Rs1 million on his head. His name was also listed in the police’s Red Book. Yasir Punjabi and his associates were alleged to be involved in criminal masterminding, facilitating, training, provision of logistics and reconnaissance of targets in different parts of the country. Yasir Punjabi was wanted in several terrorist attacks on police installations like the CIA headquarters, police rest house and Special Branch buildings in Gujranwala. He was involved in attacking Ahmadis’ worship places in Lahore in 2010 in which more than 90 people were killed. Yasir Punjabi and his associates were also involved in assassination of coppers in Uch Sharif, Muzaffargarh, D.G. Khan and Layyah, and in the liquidation of Brig Fazal Qadri. They were also blamed for attacking a religious gathering in Sargodha in September 2014. The sources further contended that the suspects were interrogated by the CTD, MI and ISI to their satisfaction. Inspector General of Police Mushtaq Sukhera claimed on Friday that all the heads of terrorist organizations in south Punjab had been eliminated. He termed the killing of Yasir Punjabi and his associates an important development in the operation against terrorism. Posted by: Fred 2016-05-22 |
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