Amjad Hussain Farooqi

Amjad Hussain Farooqi died in the Sept. 26 shootout at a house in the southern town of Nawabshah. Two or three other men, one of them an Islamic cleric, were arrested.

Fayyaz Leghari, deputy chief of police in Karachi, said security was on "red alert" in the city -- known as a hotbed for Islamic militants -- with increased patrols around foreign consulates and key government offices, and more plainclothes officers at sensitive locations.

Farooqi, a Pakistani aged about 32, was one of the most wanted men in the country after security officials revealed in May that he had helped plan two bomb attacks against Musharraf near the capital in December 2003 that narrowly missed the president.

The Japan Times Weekly: Oct. 2, 2004
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