...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...
airport attack, Abu Abdul Rehman al Maani was killed during the overnight air strikes carried out by Pakistain Air Force (PAF) fighter jets and the Pakistain Army jointly in North
Wazoo early morning Sunday, military sources told Dawn.com.Intelligence and military sources told Dawn.com that Abu Abdur Rehman Almani is considered a key commander of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), also now famous by the name of Islamic Movement of Turkestan. The IMU, an organization of gunnies mostly from the central Asian Uzbek state, had claimed that its jacket wallahs carried out the attack on the Karachi airport.
There are also reports of some East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) forces of Evil also killed in the strikes, considered a big blow to the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) and the ETIM network in the North Waziristan Agency. However,
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them...
there was no confirmation from the military on the identity of the dear departed.
The ETIM is a separatist turban outfit blamed for numerous terror attacks in China's restive western region of Xinjiang.
The Chinese government had recently pressed Pakistain to take action against the Uighur separatists based in North Waziristan.
The movement's principle aim is to establish an independent Islamic state called East Turkestan.
