KARACHI: Four suspected militants were shot dead in an alleged encounter in the City’s Ittehad Town area on Saturday night, officials said.

A Counter-Terrorism Department official, Ali Raza, said a police party raided an alleged hideout of militants after security agencies provided them information that the Karachi chief of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (Swat) was there.

Mr Raza claimed that during the raid an exchange of fire took place during which four suspects were killed while the TTP Karachi Emir escaped.

Published in Dawn, May 3rd, 2015

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