The dreaded leader of Pakistan’s banned sectarian outfit lashkar-i-Jhangvi (leJ), Malik Ishaq, was killed along with his two sons and 11 top members of the al-Qaeda-linked terror group behind several deadly attacks on the minority Shia community, police said on Wednesday.
Ishaq and his sons, who had been arrested last week, were being moved to another location when gunmen attacked the police convoy in Muzaffargarh district of Punjab province late last night to free him following which a shootout took place, they said. The death of the leJ chief, believed to be either 55 or 56 years of age, is a huge blow to the leJ which is involved in killing of hundreds of Shias and has been accused of developing links with the Islamic State.