[DAWN] Security forces in Lahore tossed in the calabooseBook 'im, Mahmoud!
three holy warriors from the banned outfit 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 ...
(LeJ) after conducting operations on Friday, DawnNews reported.
Sources said the Death Eaters were arrested in Batapur, close to the Wagah border. A large contingency of security forces participated in the operation.
The three men have been named as Qari Mushtaq, 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...
and Jameel Muawiya, the sources said.
The arrested men are said to be associated with the terrorist group and have been moved to
Since the terrorist attack on an Army Public School 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.
last month, there has been a crackdown against banned
...the word
bannedseems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organizations in the country, with several holy warriors being arrested.
LeJ has has forged ties to Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in a murderous campaign to wage sectarian warfare.
Since its inception in 1996 by a religious Lion of Islam, the faction has claimed to have killed thousands of people in bombings and shootings across Pakistain.