.SHAFAQNA PAKISTAN (Shia News Agency)
A US national and vice-principal at Jinnah Medical and Dental College (JMDC) was shot and critically injured on Shaheed-e-Millat Road on Thursday, reported dawn. This is not the first time an American national is attacked in Pakistan. However the killing of an American educationist in Pakistan has increased the woes of the government after police suspect to be the first targeted attack in the city by militants claiming affiliation with the Islamic State (IS). According to Tribune leaflets found at the scene claiming the attack on behalf of the Islamic State group. Police officer Pir Muhammad Shah said messages in English and Urdu were dropped at the scene saying the attack was carried out by the “Lions of Daulah Al-Islamiyyah”, using the Arabic name for the Islamic State group (IS) which has seized swathes of territory in Iraq and the Middle East. Leaflets calling for support of IS jihadists have been seen over recent months in parts of northwest Pakistan and pro-IS slogans have appeared on walls in several cities. Some disaffected Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan cadres have also said they have switched allegiance to IS, but the true extent of links to the group’s Middle East operations remains unclear.Pakistan’s interior ministry and foreign office has been constatnly brushing aside news of IS presence in Pakistan but actions speak louders than words. After appearing of IS slogans in different areas of Karachi and Islamabad and alleged IS literature distribution in Tribal areas, show that Government of Pakistan is hiding her head in the sand and another threat is looming on its head.
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