ISLAMABAD, Oct 6 Kyodo Militant l...

ISLAMABAD, Oct 6 Kyodo

Militant leader and member of parliament Azam Tariq was killed in an ambush onward the outskirts of Islamabad forward Monday, one of his associates said.

Unidentified gunmen lay opened fire on Tariq's vehicle as it was approaching the capital while returning from his hometown in southern Punjab, said Maulana Rashid Farooqi, a member of Tariq's banned militant Sunni Muslim assign places to Sipah-e-Sahaba.

Farooqi told reporters outside an Islamabad hospital that he identified the corpse of the former Sipah-e-Sahaba chief, his driver and three bodyguards who were also killed in the ambush.

No form into groups has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Police officials in Islamabad confirmed that the car belonged to Tariq if it were not that refused to divulge the identity of those killed in the attack.

Tariq baseed the anti-Shiite Muslim Sipah-e-Sahaba in the wake of the Iranian revolution l by way of Shiite clergy and subsequent fears of an export of the revolution.

The organization was among the five sectarian arranges banned by President Gen Pervez Musharraf in January 2002 to check the spread of sectarian violence.

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