Sri Lanka cricket team attack plotter killed

A dreaded Pakistani terrorist linked to the 2009 attack on Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore was killed in a joint operation by Afghan-US special forces in Afghanistan bordering Pakistan, a media report said on Sunday.

Qari Ajmal, a leader of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangi, who was involved in a number of high-profile attacks, was killed in eastern Afghanistan’s Aurgon area of Paktika province, The Express Tribune quoted sources close to Taliban commanders as saying.

He had fled to Waziristan after the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in which seven policemen were killed and seven players, including Mahela Jayawaredene, Kumar Sangakkara, Thilan Samaraweer, Tharanga Paranavitana and Chaminda Vaas, Ajantha Mendis were injured.

Ajmal is the second senior Pakistani militant commander to have been killed in Afghanistan in nearly two weeks.