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Pakistan police kill seven Taleban militants in Karachi
(MENAFN- Arab News) KARACHI: Pakistan police on Sunday killed seven Taleban insurgents during a raid in the port city of Karachi police said.
The encounter took place in the Sohrab Goth area on the outskirts of the city after police received intelligence information about the presence of Tehreek-e-Taleban Pakistan (TTP) insurgents in a compound there.
'There were up to 16 TTP militants present in the house when we raided it' senior local police official Rao Anwar said.
He said the raid triggered a gunfight killing seven insurgents adding that three of them were involved in the assassination of a senior Karachi police official Chaudhry Aslam in January this year.
'These three militants who had fled to another country after Aslam's murder but returned home just recently were experts of making bombs and suicide vests' Anwar said.
Police were trying to identify the four others who were killed. At least seven militants fled during the gunfight he said.
The raid came two weeks after a senior police official Farooq Awan who has been a key player in the police's fight against terrorist groups in the city since 2001 survived a car bomb attack in Karachi.
Karachi a city of 18 million people which contributes 42 percent of Pakistan's GDP has been plagued by sectarian ethnic and political violence for years.
The encounter took place in the Sohrab Goth area on the outskirts of the city after police received intelligence information about the presence of Tehreek-e-Taleban Pakistan (TTP) insurgents in a compound there.
'There were up to 16 TTP militants present in the house when we raided it' senior local police official Rao Anwar said.
He said the raid triggered a gunfight killing seven insurgents adding that three of them were involved in the assassination of a senior Karachi police official Chaudhry Aslam in January this year.
'These three militants who had fled to another country after Aslam's murder but returned home just recently were experts of making bombs and suicide vests' Anwar said.
Police were trying to identify the four others who were killed. At least seven militants fled during the gunfight he said.
The raid came two weeks after a senior police official Farooq Awan who has been a key player in the police's fight against terrorist groups in the city since 2001 survived a car bomb attack in Karachi.
Karachi a city of 18 million people which contributes 42 percent of Pakistan's GDP has been plagued by sectarian ethnic and political violence for years.
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