Al Qaeda South Asia Commander killed in Karachi Encounter

Karachi, 9 January : A senior commander of Al Qaeda South Asia’s Karachi wing identified as Sajad Aka was killed along with his three men and five policemen wounded during ‘encounters’ with Crime Investigation Department (CID) and police in different areas of the city early on Friday.
A police team headed by CID In-charge Raja Umer Khattab, acting on a tip-off, conducted a raid in the Qayyumabad area of Karachi where an alleged encounter took place.