KARACHI, Pakistan — A suspect involved in an attack on a lawmaker killed one police officer and wounded another during a raid at his house and he was able to escape from his eastern Karachi neighbourhood, police said Monday. Counterterrorism police officer Rao Anwar Ahmed said the suspect was wounded in the raid. He said Abdul Karim Siddiqi was the mastermind of an attack on an ethnic lawmaker on Saturday. Hours after the early morning raid, Ahmed told reporters that based on an intelligence report, he had a team raid a construction site in eastern Karachi, where four Islamic militants were holed up. Fazlullah fled to Afghanistan when the Pakistan army started a massive military operation in the scenic Swat valley in 2009.

Source: National Post September 04, 2017 07:30 UTC