KARACHI: Karachi Police said Tuesday they had killed a Taliban commander responsible for a bomb attack in 2007 that killed 139 people in a botched attempt to assassinate ex-premier Benazir Bhutto.
Firdous Khan was killed in an hour-long gunfight with police in the Manghopir neighbourhood of Karachi, said Usman Bajwa, a senior official in the Crime Investigations Department.
Bajwa told AFP Khan was the mastermind of the devastating bombing near Bhutto's truck at a political rally during her Pakistan homecoming parade in October 2007.
"Firdous Khan was a Taliban commander who acted as a facilitator and trained the suicide bomber and later took him to the target," said Bajwa.
He said the shootout took place between Monday night and Tuesday morning.
Other militants escaped during the exchange of fire by taking advantage of the darkness, he said.
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