Tag: Malik Ishaq

PESHAWAR: Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) claimed responsibility Sunday for a bomb blast that killed 23 people at a crowded bazaar in Shia dominated city of Parachinar on Sunday.

The chief of the dreaded Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) Malik Ishaq has been killed in a police encounter earlier on July 29.

MUZAFFARGARH: Sixteen terrorists including Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) Chieftain Malik Ishaq and his two sons were killed in an encounter at Muzaffargarh. The LeJ chief and his group were involved in many sectarian attacks and cases of terrorism including lethal attacks on Hazaras in Quetta and the 2009 attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team.

LAHORE: The leader of a banned Pakistani sectarian militant group who was set to walk free from jail is being held for two more weeks in a murder case, officials said Thursday.

LAHORE: The leader of a banned sectarian militant group, Malik Ishaq is set to walk free from jail, officials said Tuesday, even as the government considers "radical changes" to tackle militancy after a Taliban school massacre.