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Taleban claim killing retired army officer, blast at FC checkpoint

"Two unidentified gunmen on a motorbike opened fire on Raza in the early hours of Saturday," a duty officer at Defence Police Station told The Express Tribune newspaper.

Islamabad: A retired major of the Pakistan Army was shot dead on Saturday in Karachi's Defence Housing Authority (DHA) area in an attack claimed by the Tehreek-e-Taleban Pakistan.
Soon after the attack on Major (retd) Ahsan Raza, 52, in DHA Phase-I, the TTP in a statement claimed responsibility.
"Two unidentified gunmen on a motorbike opened fire on Raza in the early hours of Saturday," a duty officer at Defence Police Station told The Express Tribune newspaper.
The body was shifted to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) soon after the incident.
Soldier killed in Quetta
At least one soldier was killed and four others wounded including a passerby when a bomb exploded at a paramilitary checkpoint in southwest Pakistan, police said.
The bomb, planted close to the Frontier Corps (FC) checkpoint went off early Saturday when soldiers reached the site for daily duty in Quetta, the main town of oil and gas rich Balochistan province, senior police official Abdul Waheed Khattak said.
"It was an IED (improvised explosive device) which exploded the moment soldiers reached the checkpoint," Khattak said.
He added the blast killed one soldier and wounded four others including a teenager passing the site at the time of the explosion.
"(The) condition of another soldier is also critical," Khattak said.
The statement by TTP spokesperson Mohammed Khorasani said that a special task force unit of the TTP carried out the attack in Karachi, along with an attack on a deputy superintendent of police (DSP) in Peshawar, and a blast in Quetta which killed one Frontier Corps official.
Suspects killed in encounter
At least five alleged terrorists were killed during an encounter with a team of the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) in district Nankana Sahib. According to the CTD, two accomplices of the slain terrorists escaped.
Acting on a tip-off, the CTD team raided a hideout in Mian Singh in Faizabad Town and an encounter took place with the terrorists holed up in a house. After a shootout, five terrorists were killed on the spot while their two accomplices escaped.
The CTD said that those killed were affiliated with the proscribed Tehreek-e-Taleban Pakistan and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. A search operation is under way to track down the two fleeing suspects, the CTD said. A huge cache of arms and ammunition was also recovered from the hideout, the CTD said.
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(With input from agencies)

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