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This is an archive article published on June 19, 2004
Pak kills pro-Qaeda leader
Pakistani forces killed a top tribal warrior and his four comrades who had sheltered Al Qaeda fighters in overnight raids in a tribal region...
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Pakistani forces killed a top tribal warrior and his four comrades who had sheltered Al Qaeda fighters in overnight raids in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan, officials said on Friday.
Nek Mohammad, who protected Al Qaeda-linked foreign militants in the semi-autonomous South Waziristan tribal belt, was killed near the main town of Wana, 400 km south-west of Islamabad, an intelligence official said.
Military spokesman Major General Shaukat Sultan said the military attacked Mohammad’s hideout after receiving reports that he had taken refuge there. ‘‘He has been killed with four other terrorists,’’ Sultan said in Islamabad. ‘‘It is a big success in the war against terror.’’
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Meanwhile, Pakistan’s Opposition parties today staged a walkout from both Houses of Parliament and held a demonstration to protest the murder of Munawwar Suharwardi, an Opposition activist and aide of former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto. Addressing gathering of Opposition MPs from the Senate and National Assembly, PPP senior leader Makhdoom Amin Fahim flayed the government for its failure to protect the lives of the citizens.
Fahim, who is also chairman of the Alliance For Restoration of Democracy (ARD), said the government was responsible for the killing of Suharwardi in broad day-light. Fahim said Suharwardi was a courageous leader who after receiving bullet wounds himself hired a rickshaw to reach a hospital.
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