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Karachi police on Sunday killed seven suspected Taliban terrorists during a raid on the outskirts of the city.
The encounter took place in the Sohrab Goth area after police received intelligence information about the presence of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terrorists in a compound there.
“There were up to 16 TTP militants present in the house when we raided it,” Malir Superintendent of Police Rao Anwar told reporters.
He said the raid triggered a gunfight, killing seven insurgents, adding that three of them were involved in the assassination of a senior police official Chaudhry Aslam in January this year.
“These three militants, who had fled to Saudi Arabia 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 per cent of Pakistan’s GDP, has been plagued by sectarian, ethnic and political violence for years.
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