Pakistani police kill millitant leader

Pakistani police have killed the pioneer of an al Qaeda-connected activist gathering that has over and again done lethal assaults on the nation's Shiite Muslim minority as of late, powers said Wednesday.

Malik Ishaq, the head of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, was executed amid a shootout after outfitted men on cruisers trapped a police escort that was transporting him between penitentiaries in Punjab region, Pakistan's Counter Terrorism Department said.

Lashkar-e-Jhangvi is known for focusing on Shiites in Sunni-larger part Pakistan, including a progression of bombings in mid 2013 that left more than 160 individuals dead in Balochistan area. Ishaq was kept by powers not long after those assaults.

In the go against police early Wednesday, the bike riding aggressors liberated Ishaq and two of his children in the trap, yet police reacted with gunfire that killed the terrorist pioneer, both of his children and 12 others, powers said.

Alternate aggressors fled the scene, as per the Counter Terrorism Department. Six police authorities were harmed, it said.