Information About Incident 45616-88480-222179 in Karachi East Pakistan

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The Police arrested two persons, identified as Mohammad Adnan and Shah Jahan alias Munna, for their associations with Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) after an alleged encounter in Korangi in Karachi on August 22, reported Daily Times.

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• Meta Location: Korangi Karachi
• Matched District: Karachi East
• Actgroup: arrest
• Actor: The Police
• Subject: two persons , identified as Mohammad Adnan and Shah Jahan alias Munna , for their associations with Lashkar - e - Jhangvi ( LeJ ) and Jaish - e - Mohammed ( JeM ) after an alleged encounter in Korangi in Karachi , reported Daily Times

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The Police arrested two persons, identified as Mohammad Adnan and Shah Jahan alias Munna, for their associations with Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) after an alleged encounter in Korangi in Karachi on August 22, reported Daily Times. Station Investigation Officer (SIO) Anwar Jaffery said that a Police team raided an area near Bagh-e-Korangi on a tip-off and after a brief encounter arrested the accused along with two pistols. He said that the arrested persons received militant training in Waziristan through Jaish-e-Mohammad (JM) and later joined the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) and that now they were working for both these organisations. As per the officer, their current commander named Aslam was in Waziristan and he orchestrated the robberies through his men here for funding the Jihadi (holy warrior) elements in South Waziristan.

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