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Pakistan: Troops kill suicide jacket supplier near Peshawar
PESHAWAR, (Dawn): The military said Wednesday that a supplier of suicide jackets and explosives who operated a key inter-city network had been killed during a gun battle with soldiers.
�Two important terrorist commanders named Mohammad Tufail alias Abdullah and Mohammad Iqbal were killed by security forces in an exchange of fire,� the military announced overnight in the northwestern city of Peshawar.
The gun battle happened late Monday on the outskirts of Peshawar, a military spokesman told AFP.
The military said Iqbal belonged to Pakistan's Tehrik-i-Taliban faction in the lawless district of Khyber, which straddles the main supply line for Nato troops fighting against the Taliban in neighbouring Afghanistan.
�He was a key supplier of suicide bomb jackets and explosives to Islamabad and other cities of Pakistan,� the army said.
He was accused of supplying explosives for �21 suicide vehicles� to northwest district Swat, where Pakistan launched an offensive last year to quell a Taliban insurgency, Balochistan province and other cities.
The military said Tufail, alias Abdullah, had been a Taliban commander in the northwestern district of Nowshera, where he had been involved in missile and rocket assaults and a car suicide attack on an army mosque last June.
The bombing killed four people and wounded at least 90 others after a car packed with explosives ploughed into the wall of a mosque in the garrison town of Nowshera, bringing down the roof of the building.
Pakistan is under huge US pressure to eliminate Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants who pose a domestic threat and who infiltrate Afghanistan to attack Western forces fighting an eight-year war.
More than 3,000 people have been killed in suicide and bomb attacks across Pakistan since July 2007 � a deadly campaign blamed on militants opposed to the government's alliance with the United States.
PESHAWAR, (Dawn): The military said Wednesday that a supplier of suicide jackets and explosives who operated a key inter-city network had been killed during a gun battle with soldiers.
�Two important terrorist commanders named Mohammad Tufail alias Abdullah and Mohammad Iqbal were killed by security forces in an exchange of fire,� the military announced overnight in the northwestern city of Peshawar.
The gun battle happened late Monday on the outskirts of Peshawar, a military spokesman told AFP.
The military said Iqbal belonged to Pakistan's Tehrik-i-Taliban faction in the lawless district of Khyber, which straddles the main supply line for Nato troops fighting against the Taliban in neighbouring Afghanistan.
�He was a key supplier of suicide bomb jackets and explosives to Islamabad and other cities of Pakistan,� the army said.
He was accused of supplying explosives for �21 suicide vehicles� to northwest district Swat, where Pakistan launched an offensive last year to quell a Taliban insurgency, Balochistan province and other cities.
The military said Tufail, alias Abdullah, had been a Taliban commander in the northwestern district of Nowshera, where he had been involved in missile and rocket assaults and a car suicide attack on an army mosque last June.
The bombing killed four people and wounded at least 90 others after a car packed with explosives ploughed into the wall of a mosque in the garrison town of Nowshera, bringing down the roof of the building.
Pakistan is under huge US pressure to eliminate Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants who pose a domestic threat and who infiltrate Afghanistan to attack Western forces fighting an eight-year war.
More than 3,000 people have been killed in suicide and bomb attacks across Pakistan since July 2007 � a deadly campaign blamed on militants opposed to the government's alliance with the United States.
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