MUZAFFARGARH: Pakstani police gunned down one of the country’s most-feared Sunni militant leaders and 13 followers in a mysterious pre-dawn shootout, killing a man believed to behind the slaughter of hundreds of the nation’s minority Shiites.
Malik Ishaq (pic), who directed the operations of the Taliban- and al-Qaeda-linked Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group, was so feared in Pakistan that frightened judges hid their faces from him and even offered the unrepentant killer tea and cookies in court.
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