Lahore: Pakistani police said on Saturday 10 militants from Jamaat-ur-Ahrar, a faction of the Pakistani Taliban, died in a gun battle in Lahore, including a key facilitator of a February blast that left 13 people dead. The clash came just days after a suicide attack claimed by the Pakistani Taliban on an army census team that killed at least six people and wounded 18 in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore. Among those killed was a facilitator of a suicide bombing attack in February in Lahore, the statement said. Pakistani security forces in February killed around 100 militants after a Sufi Shrine bombing in February that left more than 80 dead in southern province of Sindh. The spate of attacks has ratcheted up tensions with neighbouring Afghanistan, which some Pakistani officials accuse of sheltering Pakstani Taliban militants.

Source: Mint April 08, 2017 10:30 UTC