Chief of LeJ death squad arrested by Pak authorities

Last Updated: Friday, July 19, 2013, 20:40

Masoom Billa, the alleged death squad chief of banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, that has carried out a series of deadly sectarian attacks across Pakistan, has been arrested.

Woman LeJ suicide bomber hit Quetta university bus: Pak police

Last Updated: Sunday, June 16, 2013, 13:25

A woman Lashkar-e-Jhangvi suicide bomber attacked university bus carrying women and her male accomplice struck a hospital in Pakistan`s Quetta, as death toll rose to 26 in the multiple strikes.

Banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi`s Karachi chief arrested

Last Updated: Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 22:31

In a major breakthrough, former police constable and chief of the Karachi chapter of the banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LJ) was on Tuesday arrested by the Pakistani police here.

Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, death squad`s shadow looms over polls in Balochistan

Last Updated: Saturday, May 4, 2013, 17:53

Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and "death squads" loom large over election process in Pakistan`s Balochistan but those most at threat are not even willing to name forces that have squeezed them out of campaign.

Killers of Prof Sibte Jaffar arrested in Karachi

Last Updated: Wednesday, April 3, 2013, 22:17

Police in Karachi said today they have arrested two militants of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi who were involved in the killing of a Shia college professor last month.

Pak`s caretaker PM terms upcoming elections as `big challenge`

Last Updated: Thursday, March 28, 2013, 17:51

Pak general election on May 11 is "big challenge" and law enforcement authorities should use all measures to ensure polls are "fair in every possible manner", caretaker PM Mir Hazar Khan Khoso said.

Top LeJ commander arrested in Pakistan

Last Updated: Sunday, March 17, 2013, 21:02

A top commander of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi was arrested in this Pakistani city.

Sectarian attacks are `genocide`: Shiite leader

Last Updated: Sunday, March 10, 2013, 09:18

Pakistan`s minority Shiite Muslims have started using the word "genocide" to describe a violent spike in attacks against them by a militant Sunni group.

Pak investigators believe LeJ behind Karachi bombing

Last Updated: Wednesday, March 6, 2013, 12:29

Pakistani investigators believe a faction of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi carried out the bomb attack in a Shia-domiated neighbourhood of Karachi that killed 48 people, according to a media report on Wednesday.

Rehman Malik questions Punjab government over terror

Last Updated: Tuesday, March 5, 2013, 12:12

Pakistan`s Interior Minister Rehman Malik has criticised the Punjab provincial government for doing precious little to curb terrorism, particularly against banned terror outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.

Twin blasts kill 37, injure 40 in Karachi

Last Updated: Sunday, March 3, 2013, 21:04

Thirty-seven people, including women and children, were killed and about 80 injured when two blasts ripped through a Shia-dominated area of the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi on Sunday, the latest in a string of attacks targeting the minority sect.