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Head of anti-Shia terror group killed in Pakistan

This photograph taken on December 22, 2014, shows Pakistani police escorting the head of banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) Malik Ishaq as he arrives at the high court in Lahore. (AFP)

Kamran Yousaf

Press TV, Islamabad

The leader of one of Pakistan’s deadliest terrorist groups was killed by police when he was trying to escape in the eastern province of Punjab. Malik Is-haq, the founder of outlawed Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, was behind the killings of hundreds of Shia Muslims in the country. Our correspondent Kamran Yousaf has filed us this report from Islamabad.


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