Deobandi Lashkar-e-Jhangvi responsible for Quetta Police Training Centre massacre

Pakistani authorities believe the Deobandi extremist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a sister-wing of proscribed ASWJ could be behind the recent terror attack that killed up to 69 police trainees in Quetta, Balochistan. Citing initial reports, officials say the attackers, all of them suicide bombers, were receiving orders from their handlers in Afghanistan as they were mounting the attack.

Attackers were communicating with their handlers in Afghanistan as they were mounting the attack, officials said.
Communication intercepts showed the attack was carried out by Deobandi Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (Al-Alimi) faction of the Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LJ) militant group, IG Frontier Corps (FC) Major General Sher Afgan said.
Security forces have cleared the area at the Balochistan Police College in Quetta, the capital of the restive Balochistan province, which is located at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. On Monday (24 October), three heavily armed assailants stormed the facility, which hosted close to 700 cadets at the time of the attack, randomly sprayed bullets on the trainees. The Deobandi militants wore suicide vests – while two blew themselves up, the third one was shot dead by security personnel.