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Seven people, four of them Shia pilgrims and one an Iranian national, were killed and one wounded when gunmen opened fire on the office...

KARACHI - Police arrested a member of a banned organisation involved in target killings in Karachi on Tuesday and recovered a weapon from his possession.
Police said the accused, Sajid Ali, was an active member of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) and was involved in the targeted killings of five people, including the chief of Shia Muslims mourners' organisation, Nayyar Zaidi, and a local leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Yawar Abbas.

LAHORE: Terrorists of Lashkar-e-Jhanghvi, arrested recently from various cities, revealed during interrogation that they had plans to attack Shia processions in Muharram, security officials on Friday told Pakistan Today.
The officials said that this Muharram would be the biggest challenge for the law-enforcing agencies across the country as it appeared that Punjabi Taliban led by Lashkar-e-Jhanghvi had set to inflict maximum damage to Shia community, during Muharram. The

KARACHI: Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Friday accused the banned terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Jhangvi of attacking the CID building in Karachi, stoking fears that militant networks were expanding their fight in the country's economic capital.
"Lashkar-e-Jhangvi is behind the attack on the CID building," the minister told reporters in Islamabad on Friday. Gunmen rode up to the Crime Investigation Department (CID), used to detain terror suspects, on Thursday evening,