AMRAIZ KHAN
The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) Punjab claimed on Saturday to have arrested nine terrorists of a defunct organization. It is pertinent to mention here that accused were arrested during different intelligence-based operations across the province.
Among the arrested were identified as, Kashif, Jawad Saeed, Saqib Ilyas, Sabz Ali, Daud Shah, and Ahmad Jan, said a spokesman for CTD.
He said that 10 cases were registered against the terrorists and the investigation was underway.
The arrested terrorist had already planned to carry out an attack in sensitive districts, he said. Apart from suicide jackets, explosives, guns, ammunition, and literature pertaining to terror activities were recovered from the arrested suspects, a spokesman claimed.
It is worth mentioning here that on Feb 9, two terrorists had been killed after carrying out a grenade attack and firing at a raiding team of the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) in the Nowshera district of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).
The CTD spokesperson had said that an intelligence-based operation (IBO) was conducted in Nowshera’s Misri Banda in the vicinity of the Risalpur police station.
The terrorists carried out a grenade attack and opened fire at the raiding team.
