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India-Pakistan
Karachi police claim killing four suspected militants in encounter
2016-03-06
[DAWN] Police on Saturday claimed to have killed four suspected holy warriors belonging to banned outfits during an "encounter" in the outskirts of the metropolis.

Malir SSP Rao Anwar said that suspects were allegedly involved in the killing of security personnel and members of Shia community.

The senior police official claimed that the dear departed were members of banned outfits -- Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
Police acted on an information provided by the already tossed in the slammer
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
suspects and was backed by intelligence agencies, said Anwar.

The raid was carried out near residential compound off Superhighway near Inara Garden -- a residential complex of members of Ismaili community, he added.

"Suspects on seeing the police resorted to firing and in an ensuing encounter, four gunnies got bumped off," claimed the Malir SSP.

Anwar identified two of the dear departed as Noman Akhter and Sohail alias Kanga.

They deceased were involved in the assassination'>assassinations of traffic officials, coppers and members of Shia community. The police also claimed to have seized a cache of weapons from the custody of suspected bad boys.

Soon after the encounter in which four holy warriors got killed, four suspects riding two cycle of violences attacked a police post near Al-Asif Square in Sohrab Goth, said the Malir SSP.

The opened fire on the police check post from some distance but coppers manning the bunker retaliated with return fire, forcing the attacker to flee.
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