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Pakistani police announced on Wednesday the capture of a leader of the outlawed Lashkar-i-Jhangvi Islamic militant group, which is linked to the killings of Westerners, Christians and Shiite Muslims. "Shabir Ahmed was arrested from his hideout in Multan," in central Pakistan, police superintendent Murid Hussain, said. It was not clear when he was captured. Ahmed, wanted in four separate cases of killings of followers of the minority Shiite community, had a Rs 1 million ($17,240) bounty on his head. He was a local leader of Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LJ), meaning the 'warriors of Jhangvi', which was declared a terrorist organisation by the...