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| Six Al Qaeda men killed in Okara village: police |
| 2016-07-15 |
| [DAWN] LAHORE/OKARA: Police claimed on Wednesday to have killed six murderous Moslems of Al Qaeda in an encounter and seized a huge quantity of arms and ammunition, including a rocket launcher. Okara District Police Officer (DPO) Muhammad Faisal Rana claimed that personnel of police and intelligence agencies raided the farmhouse of Naeem Jhakhar in village 28/2R, Kulyana Estate, on Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... Road at around 2.30am. He said the raid was carried out on the basis of information received about the presence of murderous Moslems at the place. The official said that people present in the farmhouse detonated an bomb and opened fire when they saw the raiding team. The security personnel retaliated and firing from both sides continued for about three hours. When the shooting from inside the premises stopped, the personnel entered the place and found six men dead with their weapons scattered around. A rocket launcher with ammunition, a detonator, five Kalashnikov rifles, five sub-machine guns, explosives made in India and Russia, a suicide jacket, a mobile phone and a map of the Okara District Police Office were found. The district police chief said two security personnel were maimed in the shootout. One of them was referred to Lahore due to his critical condition. Rescue-1122, Civil Defence and fire brigade teams also reached the place. Computerised national identity cards found in the pockets of four of the dear departed identified them as Samiullah of Shangla, Yasibur Rehman of Hangu, Amir Habib of Bannu and Saeedur Rehman of Islamabad. The DPO said the farmhouse’s owner was acting president of Anjuman Mazareen 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.... (AMP), Kulyana Estate, and brother of the tenant farmers organization’s former chief Saleem Jhakhar who is behind bars. The official said the seized phone had been sent to a forensic lab for collecting more information. Citing directives of Punjab police chief Mushtaq Sukhera, he said the first information report (FIR) of the incident would be registered at the Counterterrorism Department cop shoppe in Lahore. The DPO said local links of the suspected murderous Moslems would be investigated. A medical board was conducting autopsy of the dead at the Okara District Headquarters Hospital. |
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