Pakistan arrested 97 al-Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi militants,together with three commanders, in the southern city of Karachi the army claimed on Friday, while foiled a planned attack to break U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl's killer out of jail.
The men are involved in major attacks on two Pakistani air bases, the Karachi airport, several regional intelligence headquarters and on police installations between 2009 and 2015.
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi is an Islamist group whose sectarian ideology is closely aligned with Islamic State, as it wants to kill or expel Pakistan's minority Shi'ites and establish a Sunni theocracy.
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