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Feb 13 Lahore Mall bombing handler shot dead by CTD

M. M. ALAM

LAHORE: Anwarul Haq who handled the February 13 bomb attack at The Mall has been shot dead along with nine others by CTD here on Friday night (8 April).

CTD spokesman has claimed that an encounter took place at 1.15 am near Ring Road when five detained terrorists were being escorted to Manawan in order to recover weapons on their indication.  

Nine attackers got the detained accused free and fled towards Ravi River. After a thirty minute pursuit a shootout took place in which ten of the militants were gunned down.

Militants killed belonged to the banned outfit Jamaatul Ahrar.

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February 18, 2017

KARACHI: Stepping up action against militants following the recent wave of terrorism, Pakistan army destroyed four training camps of banned outfit Jamaatul Ahrar on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border late Friday night.

The camp of Jamaatul Ahrar deputy commander Adil Bacha and a training compound of the group was also decimated, Pakistan army’s media wing ISPR said, adding that there were reports of casualties as well.

The action came hours after army chief General Qamar Bajwa said terrorists from Afghanistan were carrying out attacks in Pakistan with impunity, adding that “such terrorist activities and inaction against them are testing our current policy of cross-border restraint”.

Thirteen people were killed and 85 injured when a suicide blast shook Lahore’s Mall Road on Monday. Jamaatul Ahrar had claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jamaatul Ahrar, a breakaway faction of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, maintains safe havens across the border in Afghanistan.

 

 

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.