...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...
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The leader, named as "Sajjad" alias Kargil
... three months of unprovoked Pak aggression, over 4000 dead Paks, another victory for India ...
, was said to be a Bangladeshi who moved to Pakistain in 2009 and specialised in making IEDs and suicide jackets.
"The Crime Investigation Department (CID) of the police raided a house in Qayyumabad
...a suburb of Korangi Town, if you know where that is...
neighbourhood in the eastern part of Karachi where the suspects were plotting a terrorist attack," a local police official told Agence La Belle France Presse on condition of anonymity.
He added Sajjad was the Karachi commander of Al-Qaeda in South Asia, a new branch of the global bad boy outfit that was officially launched last September, along with three others.
Umar Khatab, a senior police official of the CID, confirmed the incident.
"Sajjad came from Bangladesh to Pakistain in 2009 and lived in
Wazoo where he swore allegiance to Asim Umar...chief of al-Qaeda's Sharia Committee for Pakistain, named head of al-Qaeda in India. His video appearances are frequently accompanied by clips of al Qaeda's senior propagandist in Pakistan, Ahmad Farooq. Umar the author of
The Army of Anti-Christ: Blackwater, Documentation of the Dreadful Terrorist Activities of America's Blackwater in Islamic Countries...
, the Pakistain chief of AQIS," Khatab told AFP.
He said the police recovered ammunition, weapon and a suicide jacket from the house after the shootout.
It was not immediately possible to confirm the details of the event with independent witnesses from the neighbourhood.
Rights activists say suspected forces of Evil who are captured are often killed in staged encounters by security forces.
Pakistain has upped the ante against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda linked forces of Evil after a December 16 attack on a military-run school in the northwestern city of 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.
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The country's deadliest terror attack killed 150 people, 134 of whom were schoolchildren.
Pak officials have said they plan to hang 500 convicts in coming weeks, drawing protest from international human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
campaigners.
Last week, Pakistain parliamentarians approved a law for establishment of military court for terror-related cases for speedy justice.