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| Bomb kills Pakistan police chief Chaudhry Aslam Khan | |
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| A senior police officer known in Pakistan for campaigning against the Taliban has been killed in a bomb blast in Karachi. | |
| Chaudhry Aslam Khan, the head of the city's anti-terror operations, and three others died in an attack on a police convoy in the Essa Nagri area of the city, reports say. | |
| The Pakistani Taliban said they carried out the attack. | |
| Mr Khan had survived a number of previous attempts on his life. | |
| Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif paid tribute to the police chief and condemned the attack. | |
| "We will not let the will of the nation be crushed by these cowardly acts by terrorists," Pakistani newspaper Dawn quoted Mr Sharif as saying. | |
| This was not the first attempt on Mr Khan's life. | |
| He escaped unhurt when a car packed with explosives blew up outside his home in Karachi in 2011, killing at least eight people. | |
| The chief security officer of Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, Bilal Shaikh, was killed in an attack in July. |