{"id":230,"date":"2016-08-01T15:40:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T05:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=230"},"modified":"2016-08-01T15:40:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T05:40:33","slug":"seven-ttp-lej-militants-killed-in-police-shootout-near-sheikhupura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/seven-ttp-lej-militants-killed-in-police-shootout-near-sheikhupura\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven TTP, LeJ militants killed in police shootout near Sheikhupura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Seven suspected militants belonging to two proscribed organisations were killed in a shootout near Punjab\u2019s Sheikhupura district during an intelligence-based police raid, officials said on Sunday.<br \/>\nGunfire erupted between police and 10 suspected militants early on Sunday morning in a house where the group was holed up.<br \/>\nPolice said the seven dead were killed by bullets from their own men. \u201cWhen the firing stopped, seven terrorists were found dead by the firing of their own accomplices and the remaining escaped in the darkness of the night,\u201d a police statement said.<br \/>\nPolice said the militants belonged to Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the banned sectarian group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ).<br \/>\nThey were accused of planning attacks on security posts and law enforcement agencies in Punjab.<br \/>\nRights activists have blamed police for staging raids to kill suspects they fear could be freed if tried in a court.<br \/>\nThe government launched a countrywide campaign against militancy called the National Action Plan (NAB) in 2015 after a deadly Taliban attack on Army Public School (APS) in Peshawar killed more than 150 people, mostly children.<br \/>\nThe Sunni LeJ group has claimed responsibility for some of the most brazen attacks on Shias in recently, including a January 2013 bombing in Quetta that killed over one hundred members of the Shia Hazara minority group.<br \/>\nSectarian violence \u2014 in particular that carried out by Sunni militants against Shias, who make up roughly 20 per cent of the country\u2019s population of 200 million \u2014 has claimed thousands of lives in Pakistan over the past decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Seven suspected militants belonging to two proscribed organisations were killed in a shootout near Punjab\u2019s Sheikhupura district during an intelligence-based police raid, officials said on Sunday. Gunfire erupted between police and 10 suspected militants early on Sunday morning in a house where the group was holed up. 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