‘Pakistani police kill militant commander over aid worker’s murder'
Iran Press TV
Fri Mar 15, 2013 2:7AM GMT
Pakistani police have killed a local militant commander suspected of being behind the murder of a prominent aid worker, police officials say.
“Police raided a house in western Manghopir neighborhood (of Karachi) on Thursday where Qari Bilal started gunfire. The police returned fire and killed him on the spot,” said senior police official Javed Odho.
“He was a local commander of the banned Tehrik-e Taliban organization and was a suspect in the killing of Parveen Rehman a day earlier.”
Parveen Rehman, 56, was killed on Wednesday while traveling in her car in Orangi Town, a town in the northwestern part of Karachi.
The social activist was the director of the Orangi Pilot Project, a socially innovative project that involves residents solving sanitation problems of the community. She won a UN-Habitat award in 2001.
Meanwhile, senior police official Shahid Hayat said that security forces detained six Taliban militants including “Bashir Ullah, who was a mastermind of the deadly bombing in the Abbas Town neighborhood” of Karachi on March 3.
At least 50 people were killed and 150 others injured in the bomb explosion in the Shia neighborhood.
Human Rights Watch says more than 400 Shia Muslims were killed in Pakistan in 2012, which was the deadliest year on record for the Pakistani Shia Muslim community.
Thousands of Pakistanis have also lost their lives in bombings and other militant attacks since 2001, when Pakistan entered an alliance with the United States in the so-called war against terrorism.
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