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6 suspected Jamaat-ul-Ahrar militants killed in CTD raid in Multan
[DAWN] The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) 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.... police raided a krazed killer hideout and killed six suspected members of the proscribed Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JA), the group that has launched a new campaign of violence in the country, police said on Thursday. CTD said its officers surrounded a hideout of the JA in Multan late on Wednesday and ordered the suspects inside to surrender. "But the turbans started firing at the raiding party and threw explosives," a front man for the department, who the unit does not identify for security reasons, said in a statement. Six forces of Evil were killed while three or four escaped under cover of darkness, the department added. Two hand grenades, two automatic rifles and two pistols were recovered. Police acted after getting information that the forces of Evil were planning to launch attacks on "vital installations" and the government in the area. The krazed killer faction grabbed credit for a suicide kaboom near the Punjab Assembly in Lahore on Monday that killed 14 people and maimed more than 80. Since then, forces of Evil have killed two bomb-disposal officers in the Quetta and a jacket wallah went kaboom!outside a government office in  Mohmand Agency... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... on Wednesday, killing five people. Also on Wednesday, a suicide bomber on a cycle of violence attacked a group of judges in a van in 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. , killing their driver. The attacks have underlined the threat forces of Evil pose to the government, despite an army offensive launched in 2014 to push them out of their strongholds near the Afghan border. Pakistain's foreign office said it had summoned Syed Abdul Nasir Yousafi, deputy head of mission at Afghanistan's embassy in Islamabad, on Wednesday to voice concern about JA "sanctuaries" in Afghanistan. Pakistain says forces of Evil launch attacks from the Afghan side of the border. "Afghanistan was urged to take urgent measures to eliminate the turbans and their sanctuaries, financiers and handlers," the foreign office said in a statement. Posted by: Fred 2017-02-17 |
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