Pakistani officers shot dead in Punjab province revealed to be ISI officers

Two police officers who were shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Khanewal district of Punjab province on Tuesday turned out to be the officials of Pakistans spy agency InterServices Intelligence ISIOn the day of the attack the police claimed that the two deceased officers belonged to the Counter Terrorism Department CTD of the provincial policeThe FIR filed for the case however revealed that both were ISI officers working to bust a terror network in south PunjabThe banned TehreekeTaliban Pakistan TTP and the LashkareKhorasan an offshoot of AlQaeda have claimed responsibility for the attackAlso read Pakistan court bars Election Commission from removing Imran Khan as PTI chiefAccording to the FIR ISI Multan Region Director Naveed Sadiq and Inspector Nasir Abbas met a source suspected killer on Tuesday at a roadside restaurant on the National Highway near Pirowal in Khanewal district approximately 375 kilometres from LahoreAfter having tea they all walked to the parking lot when the source identified as Umar Khan suddenly pulled out a gun and shot the ISI officers dead the FIR said adding that the suspect killed the intelligence officers reportedly on the orders of his group leader AsadullahIt is standard practice for intelligence officials to cultivate sources among terrorist networks to thwart their terror plansThe Counter Terrorism Department of Punjab police Multan has registered the case against the suspect and his accomplices under murder and terrorism charges Raids are being conducted to arrest the prime suspectISI chief Lt Gen Nadeem Anjum offered the funeral of Naveed Sadiq in LahoreIn a statement TTP spokesman Mohammad Khorasani claimed that a secret squad of TTP killed ISI Deputy Director Multan Naveed Sadiq along with his colleague Inspector Nasir Butt at Bismillah Highway in Khanewal district of PunjabThe TTP which is believed to be close to alQaeda has also explicitly warned Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharifs Pakistan Muslim LeagueNawaz PMLN and Foreign Minister Bilawal BhuttoZardari led Pakistan Peoples Party PPP the two major parties of the ruling coalitionIn November the TTP called off an indefinite ceasefire agreed with the government in June and ordered its militants to carry out attacks on the security forcesThe TTP also known as the Pakistan Taliban was set up as an umbrella group of several militant outfits in 2007 Its main aim is to impose its strict brand of Islam across PakistanThe TTP has been blamed for several deadly attacks across Pakistan including an attack on army headquarters in 2009 assaults on military bases and the 2008 bombing of the Marriott Hotel in IslamabadLast month the Pakistan Army commandos killed 25 Taliban militants during an operation to free antiterrorism police officers who were held hostage inside Khyber Pakhtunkhwas CTD compound in Bannu for three daysThe National Security Committee NSC has categorically asked Afghanistans Taliban rulers without directly naming them to deny safe haven to Pakistani terrorist groups on its soil and end their patronage while reiterating its intent to crush terrorist groups operating inside the country with full forcePakistans security is uncompromisable and the full writ of the state will be maintained on every inch of the countrys territory the NSC saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever