Pakistani intelligence agents shot
“Target killing” in Karachi leaves two counterterrorism officials dead.
‘Death threats’
“The two officials were in the forefront of anti-al-Qaeda operations in Karachi. They were involved in the arrests of many of the terror network’s operatives in the past two months,” a senior intelligence official told the AFP news agency.
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“They received death threats from the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Aware of these threats the authorities posted Inspector Ibrahim out of the country and he was to take up this post,” the official said.
Police recently arrested a figure linked to al-Qaeda in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, who was wanted for two bombings after a shootout in January that left four people dead. Qasim Toori was a member of the banned Sunni Muslim group Jundullah (Army of God).
Suicide attacks
Karachi was the scene of Pakistan’s deadliest ever suicide attack in October last year when two bombers attacked the homecoming procession of Benazir Bhutto, the now assassinated former prime minister. At least 139 people were killed in the attack.