Shootout echoes across Pakistan
Karachi police thought they were on the trail of common bank robbers. Instead, they were met by an onslaught from light machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. After five hours of fierce exchanges, two policemen and two gunmen were dead. And Pakistan had been given a graphic demonstration that the al-Qaeda-linked militant group Jundullah is ready to take its struggle to the country's major cities. - Syed Saleem Shahzad (Jan 30, '08)