<div class="section1"><div align="left" style="position:relative; left: -2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="left" border="1" width="32.1%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top;="" background-color:="" white="" ;="" ''=""> <div class="Normal"><script language="javascript">doweshowbellyad=0; </script><br /><img src="/photo/778560.cms" alt="/photo/778560.cms" border="0" /><br />Ishratâ€™s funeral (Reuters photo)</div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal">NEW DELHI: Giving credence to police version, Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba has said that Ishrat Jehan, who was killed along with three others in Ahmedabad, was the outfit''s activist.<br /><br />In a news report published in Lahore-based <span style="" font-style:="" italic;''="">Ghazwa Times</span>, mouthpiece of the LeT, Lashkar said "the veil of Ishrat Jehan, a woman activist of LeT, was removed by Indian police and her body was kept with other mujahideens (terrorists) on the ground."<br /><br />"Ishrat was with her husband, sitting on the front seat of the car," said the newspaper report published in the Jamat-ul-Dawa website, the new name of Markaz-ad-Dawa Wal Arshad (parent organisation of the LeT), which was changed after the US banned it in 2002.<br /><br /><span style="" font-weight:="" bold;''="">Next Page: </span><a href="/articleshow/msid-778241,curpg-2.cms">The Ahmedabad shoot out</a><br /><br /></div> </div><div class="section2"><div class="Normal">Two Indians and two Pakistanis, all alleged LeT suicide squad members, were gunned down by the Gujarat police in the wee hours of June 15 on the outskirts of Ahmedabad.<br /><br />Besides Ishrat from Mumbra in Mumbai, others killed were Javed Sheikh of Pune, Jishan Johar alias Abdul Ghani from Gujranwala (Pakistan) and Amjad Ali Akbarali Rana alias Salim of Haveli Diwan (Pakistan).<br /><br />The killing of Ishrat sparked a major debate with some groups claiming her to be innocent. However, the findings of the Gujarat and Mumbai police had pointed to her involvement in militant and anti-national activities.</div> </div>

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