Tag: Lj
LJ ‘death squad’ chief admits to planning attack on Justice Baqar
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ) “death squad” Chief Masoom Billah admitted to planning the bomb attack on Sindh High Court (SHC) Justice Maqbool Baqar.
Billah – who is...
Lashkar-i-Jhangvi’s Karachi chief arrested: SIU
The Special Investigation Unit (SIU) on Tuesday arrested the chief of Karachi chapter of Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LJ) from Hub, 25 kilometres from the provincial capital,...
PML-N to distance itself from extremists
To portray an image of being a truly democratic party in the eyes of the United States, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has decided...
LJ’s Malik Ishaq moved to Kot Lakhpat Jail
Leader of banned outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ) and Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal-Jamaat Central Vice President Malik Muhammad Ishaq was shifted under tight security to Kot Lakhpat Jail,...
LJ’s Qari Abdul Hai nabbed in Karachi
Sindh Rangers on Sunday claimed to have arrested Qari Abdul Hai alias Asadullah, former Ameer of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ) Sindh chapter, from Karachi.
Rangers told...
Gill asks PML-N to take action against LJ
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister Aslam Gill has strongly urged Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leaders to stop appeasing terrorist organisations in Punjab and to...
Sanaullah urges FIA to put Malik’s name on ECL
Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah on Monday urged the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to put Interior Minister Rehman Malik’s name on the Exit Control...
ECP, SC should take notice of PML-N ties with LJ: Malik
Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Friday said the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and the Supreme Court (SC) should take action against Pakistan Muslim...
LJ’s Matiur Rehman most wanted terrorist
The Punjab Government issued a list of 109 wanted terrorists on Lahore police’s website, in which Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ) leader Matiur Rehman has been placed...
Courts let Ishaq loose, we didn’t: Rasheed
Punjab government spokesman Senator Pervaiz Rasheed on Saturday rejected Interior Minister Rehman Malik’s allegations regarding Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ), saying the Punjab government had played its...
LJ leader Malik Ishaq in police custody after ‘surrender’
The leader of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ) has surrendered himself to authorities, police said on Friday, a week after the banned religious outfit claimed responsibility...
LJ city chief among seven held
The city police on Friday said they arrested at least seven sectarian militants including the city chief of the banned Sunni extremist outfit Lashkare...
Centre to ask Punjab for operation against LJ
A high-level meeting chaired by Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Tuesday decided that the Punjab government would be asked to crack down on Lashkar-e-Jhangvi...
Another missing person found dead as LJ guns downs Quetta jail...
A bullet- riddled body of a Baloch youth was discovered from Khuzdar district, 360kms southeast of Quetta, on Saturday morning. According to police, locals...
Karzai blames LJ for rare sectarian attacks
Afghan President Hamid Karzai blamed Pakistan’s extremist Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group for a bomb at a Kabul shrine that killed 59 people, demanding justice from Pakistan...
LJ hitmen kill lawyer in attack on ex-SHC judge’s house
A lawyer was killed on Friday in an attack on the vehicle of former Sindh High Court judge, Justice Zawar Hussain Jaffery outside the...
LJ’s Malik Ishaq, deputy put under house arrest
Citing security reasons, Rahim Yar Khan district authorities put Malik Ishaq, leader of the banned terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, and his deputy Ghulam Rasool under...
