Forces kill TTP commander in Karachi

Authorities in Karachi claimed on Thursday the killing of a Taliban leader, who was also thought to be involved in a deadly bomb attack this month which had killed nearly 50 people.

Police said the commander of the banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Qari Bilal was killed in a shootout with security forces in Karachi’s Manghopir area.

Police said he was also involved in the murder of Parveen Rehman, a social worker who was gunned down in Karachi on Wednesday.

Qari Bilal was involved in the murder of Parveen Rehman, a social worker who was gunned down in Karachi on Wednesday, a police officer Javed Odho said.

He told a news conference that the paramilitary forces conducted a targeted operation Korangi industrial area and arrested 26 suspected militants, including three activists of the TTP.

The forces in a pre-dawn operation had blocked entry and exit points and refused to let people enter the area and also imposed restrictions on anyone leaving. They conducted house-to-house searches in the locality.

Police said that hundreds of paramilitary troops took part in the operation.

Meanwhile four people were killed in incidents of violence in the city. Two bodies bearing torture marks were recovered from the city’s Malir River. Police said the bodies were of two brothers who had been kidnapped a day earlier from Khokhrapar.

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