PESHAWAR: The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of Bannu police arrested on Sunday three Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terrorists involved in the suicide blast on a police station.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government had put Rs6 million bounty on Zafar Iqbal, Noorani alias Madni and Abdul Shakoor alias Hameedi. They were wanted by the CTD and police in several cases. These terrorists belonged to local groups of TTP commander Afsar Ali and Commander Ilyas alias Qari Bilal.
They intended to carry out terrorist activities in Bannu and Mingora before Eidul Fitr, police said. Police arrested them from the adjoining areas of Bannu, Garira, and Khwaja Mad Mundan. In another development, unidentified militants attacked a police mobile in Lakki Marwat, leaving an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) Muhammad Shah dead and a constable injured. Two terrorists were killed in the retaliatory attack. Police also recovered automatic weapons from their possession.
Agencies add: The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) on Sunday has arrested a terrorist and recovered explosives from him in a raid in Mardan region. CTD officials said Anwar Khan was a proclaimed offender and wanted in terrorism cases to the police with five million rupees bounty on his head. The CTD recovered a heavy machine-gun seven RPG shells and large quantity of munitions, on indication of the arrested terrorist, officials said.
Anwar Khan was wanted to the CTD Mardan in 13 cases of terrorism, according to officials. The arrested terrorism accused also made disclosures about his accomplices during the investigation, officials said.
