PESHAWAR — Three suspected militants including ‘Islami Jamiat-e-Talba—IJT’ activist were killed and two others were wounded in a U.S. drone attack in the Miranshah on Friday.
“All the victims were members of the Punjabi Taliban. They would cross Afghan border” said a security official in Miranshah.
The activist of student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami (IJT), Abdur Rehman Shujat s/o Shujat Hussain (Jamaat-e-Islami worker) killed in a drone attack on 29th November, 2013.
Shujat was an engineer by profession, and had worked as an activist of IJT, NED University, Batch — 2004, department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.
Abdullah Shujat, the brother of deceased had also worked as IJT Nazim Karachi (2009).
According to reports, he was the resident of 11-A North Karachi and he was working for the ‘Punjabi Taliban group’, one of the proxies of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan.
Intelligence agencies have raided Shujat’s house and nabbed Shujat Hussain and his son Abdullah Shujat in May, 2011. Law enforcement agencies nabbed Shujat for facilitating unknown terrorists, that later turned out to be the perpetrators of Mehran Base Attack, Karachi.
It is also pertinent that another student activist of IJT from NED University, Abdus Salam was also killed in a drone attack few years back.
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