Pakistan arrests over a dozen militants in Karachi
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KARACHI (Reuters) – Pakistani police arrested more than a dozen Islamist militants in the southern city of Karachi Thursday after a fierce gunbattle following a pre-dawn raid on their hideout, officials said.
Two policemen were killed and nine wounded before the militants' resistance was broken after several hours of shooting.
The raid came at a time when tensions were running high between Pakistan and India in the wake of a militant attack on the Indian city of Mumbai in November, and there is pressure from the international community for Pakistan to crack down harder on jihadi groups.
There were no immediate details of whether the militants had any affiliations with anti-India groups, but Karachi's police chief Waseem Ahmed said authorities were investigating links to pro-Taliban fighters in the lawless tribal regions bordering Afghanistan.
"We were getting reports for a long time that some jihadi elements were active in this area. Today, we raided the area and arrested many of them," Ahmed said.
(Reporting by Imtiaz Shah and Aftab Borka; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore and Jerry Norton)
Two policemen were killed and nine wounded before the militants' resistance was broken after several hours of shooting.
The raid came at a time when tensions were running high between Pakistan and India in the wake of a militant attack on the Indian city of Mumbai in November, and there is pressure from the international community for Pakistan to crack down harder on jihadi groups.
There were no immediate details of whether the militants had any affiliations with anti-India groups, but Karachi's police chief Waseem Ahmed said authorities were investigating links to pro-Taliban fighters in the lawless tribal regions bordering Afghanistan.
"We were getting reports for a long time that some jihadi elements were active in this area. Today, we raided the area and arrested many of them," Ahmed said.
(Reporting by Imtiaz Shah and Aftab Borka; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore and Jerry Norton)
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gaiusfurius
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Glad to see this President is willing to help in the war on terror.
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mattbrawn
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Here's a link to the story for more information on the arrests. http://tinyurl.com/a3khxm
This Current pod looks at what life in Karachi is like for teenagers and the underground youth movements that they're a part of.
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mattbrawn
