Security forces in Pakistan’s volatile port city of Karachi have been put on high alert because of fears of suicide attacks by Islamic militants on mosques during Friday prayers. Karachi police chief Tariq Jamil said intelligence agencies feared the banned extremist Sunni Muslim group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, was planning suicide bomb attacks on Shi’ite mosques. “The police are on high alert and we have deployed extra force around mosques and Imambarghas (Shi’ite Muslim mosques) in the city,” Jamil told Reuters.Full Story
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