Gun battle in Multan – Pakistan police eliminate Sunni militant leader and 13 others

It turned out into a gun battle when police officers tried to transfer Ishaq from a prison in the city of Multan when gunmen ambushed the police convoy transporting him in an attempt to free the militant.
In the ensuing gun battle, Ishaq was killed along with at least 13 of his associates. They included two of his sons and his deputy. Shuja Khanzada, the provincial home minister in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province, where the alleged ambush took place, has clarified that six police officers suffered injuries in the shooting.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 29 July 2015.

Pakistani police gunned down Malik Ishaq, one of the most-feared Sunni militant leaders and 13 of his followers. It was a pre-dawn shootout to eliminate the man who is believed to be behind the slaughter of hundreds of the nation's minority Shiites.
He directed the operations of the Taliban- and Al Qaeda-linked Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group and was a man held in awe. It seems the judges were so frightened of him that they hid their faces from him and went to the extent of offering him tea and cookies in court.
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#deathrow #peshawarschoolattack #taliban Subsequent to the lifting of ban on hangings, Pakistan has hanged 12 convicts in various prisons across the country – it was the largest number of people executed on the same day after the country overturned a ban on executions. This has been reported in bbc.com dated 17 March 2015.
It has been reported by Pakistan's Dawn newspaper that the latest executions took place in Multan, Karachi, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala and Jhang.
It has been informed by the interior ministry that the men were terrorists, murderers or guilty of "heinous crimes". So far, at least 27 convicts have been executed since the moratorium of hanging was lifted. Most of them were militants. As per estimates, there are over 8,000 Pakistanis on death row.
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