Rifaqat ullah Razarwal
CHARSADDA: Police arrested 203 proclaimed offenders and 255 suspects with heavy ammunitions including suicide vests, were recovered from the arrested terrorists during the search and strike operations under the National Action Plan in November.
As per the press release issued from the office of DPO on Thursday, it said that under the NAP police functionaries carried out 29 operations and arrest allegedly five terrorist belongs to TTP Sheikh Khalid group Bajaur Agency with 40kg explosive, 100 hand grenades, which were planning to target the government and educational institutes.
The DPO said that the outlaws had confessed to their involvement in 109 acts of terrorism, including attacks on Frontier Constabulary headquarters in Shabqadar in 2011.
He added that Dawood and Ilyas were involved in attack on Shabqadar Fort in which more than 100 recruits were killed. He said Sheikh Khalid group was being operated from Afghanistan and the arrested persons were planning to carry out attacks at local courts and police mobile units and a university.
DPO Khalid said terrorists provided clue about the place to the police where they had dumped weapons and ammunition. The weapons recovered included two suicide vests, 100 hand grenades, nine rockets, huge quantity of explosives, a rocket launcher, electric detonators, remote controlled timers and mortar shells, he added.
It added that intelligence-based information led to the arrest of two militants. He said another terrorist, Commander Sajid Zaman, who was carrying Rs5 million head money managed to escape. Police is carrying out a snap checking where they registered cases against the illegal vehicles and imposed total fine 2,901,000 rupees in national exchequer.
