Pakistan security forces kill 2 Daesh men linked to abduction of American

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Pakistani police officers check a vehicle as security is beefed up in the eastern city of Faisalabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019. (AFP)
  • American development worker Warren Weinstein was abducted from Lahore
  • Both men were killed in the raid on Tuesday

MULTAN, Pakistan: A Pakistani official says security forces raided a militant hideout in the country’s east, killing two members of Daesh linked to the 2011 Al-Qaeda abduction of American development worker Warren Weinstein.
Weinstein, who was taken from the city of Lahore, was accidentally killed in a US drone strike in 2015 on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
Rai Tahir of the Punjab counter-terrorism department identified the two militants as Adeel Hafeez and Usman Haroon. He says they died in the raid in the eastern city of Faisalabad on Tuesday.
He said both also played a role in the 2013 abduction of former Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani’s son, Ali Haider, who was rescued in Afghanistan by US forces in 2016.
Many former Al-Qaeda militants are thought to have joined Daesh.

Topics: Pakistan Daesh American