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Over 100 suspects held in countrywide crackdown

LAHORE: Investigators have arrested more than 100 suspects – including Afghan and Tajik nationals – after terrorists unleashed coordinated attacks in Lahore on Thursday, reported a private TV channel and news agencies.

According to the channel, Punjab police arrested four terrorists from Lahore and Multan. Police sources claimed the arrest of Bilal Engineer – an “important terrorist” who is said to be an expert in making suicide jackets and a member of the TTP faction that claimed responsibility for the Lahore attacks. Bilal later divulged “some important information” on three other terrorists who were arrested from Sherakot in Lahore, the channel said. Those arrested from Lahore include a would-be suicide bomber and an Afghan national, it said. Suicide jackets and material used in making bombs were also seized.

Police arrested three alleged terrorists from Faisalabad, and seized suicide jackets.

Kashmore police arrested 19 Afghan and Tajik nationals from passenger buses.

Karachi police arrested 38 “suspected terrorists” – including 33 clad in FC uniforms – from Sharafi Goth area. Police also seized various types of weapons.

APP reported that intelligence agencies arrested two terrorists from Sohrab Goth and four suspects “in an injured condition” from a Karachi hospital. The agency also said that two terrorists arrested in Islamabad had disclosed plans for targeting the main F-8 market and a police station. A suicide jacket and a grenade were also found, and the men confessed to being members of the TTP, said APP. daily times monitor /agencies/staff report

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