Lashkar-e-Jhangvi

KARACHI: An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) here on Thursday discharged 11 suspected terrorists allegedly affiliated with banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi owing to lack of evidence. The ATC judge acquitted the suspects from as many as 12 charges of planning a terror plot in the city, possessing explosive material, weapons and ammunition. According to Counter Terrorism Department (CTD), all men were arrested during a raid in Karachi's Ittehad Town area after a gun battle. The CTD claimed to have recovered weapons, explosives and…

QUETTA: A car was ambushed by unidentified assailants near Mastung district of restive Balochistan province leaving at least four people dead including a woman and one person injured when it was en route to Karachi from Quetta on Wednesday morning, ARY News reported. According to Balochistan Levies, the vehicle was on the way to Karachi when came under the gun attack. The assailants managed to flee the site soon after the incident. Reaching the spot, the levies personnel and rescue teams shifted the bodies to District…

KARACHI: Acting swiftly, Rangers personnel have arrested four suspects on Saturday who were allegedly planning a terror attack on Youm-e-Ali occasion in the city, ARY News reported. The arrests were made in two separate raids in Baldia Town and Orangi Town of the metropolis. According to the Rangers spokesperson, the suspects intended to carry out a suicide attack on Youm-e-Ali procession. The alleged terrorists were said to be affiliated with the banned outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ). Huge cache of arms and…

SUKKUR: A terrorist who was killed by Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) during snap checking at a check post near Sukkur on Sunday night, has been identified Kamran Bhatti, ARY News reported. Kamran Jamshed Bhatti was reportedly affiliated with the Naeem Bukhari faction of Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LeJ). The CTD personnel at Sukkur-Shikarpur link road signalled three men on motorcycle to stop on which the bike riding armed men opened fire at them. In retaliation,CTD cops gunned down Bhatti while two others managed to flee…

RAWALPINDI: Security forces arrested over 150 persons in combing operations across the country, ARY News reported on Tuesday. Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) arrested a Lashkar-e-Jhangvi activist Khalil alias Jalil in a raid near Sukkur Bus Terminal. He is said to be involved in terror activities in Balochistan. Law enforcement agencies arrested 22 Afghan nationals from different areas of Sanghar and Khairpur districts of Sindh and recovered foreign currency. Karachi Police arrested two terror suspects identified…

KARACHI: A man belonging to banned sectarian outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) told police that Asif Ramzi, a LeJ faction leader, killed former Sunni Tehreek (ST) chief Saleem Qadri in 2001, ARY News reported on Monday. During police interrogation, Farrukh Jamal alias Ghora said that he too helped Ramzi, the leader of his own faction of LeJ, kill the then ST chief Saleem Qadri on May 18, 2001. Jamal claimed that on May 17, 2001, Asif Ramzi gave him some Kalashnikov rifles and ordered him to reach with the same at a milk…

SUKKUR: ARY News obtained a copy of the Joint Investigation Report (JIT) against Hafiz Qasim Rasheed, the Sindh Amir of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.

ISLAMABAD: Director General Intelligence Bureau (DG-IB) on Wednesday in a parliamentary hearing disclosed about presence of Daesh in Pakistan, ARY News reported.

KARACHI: Secret agencies personnel in a raid in New Karachi arrested two suspects involved in targeted killings of traffice police cops, ARY News reported on Monday.

KARACHI: Four suspects affiliated with Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi were arrested from Karachi on Sunday, ARY News reports.