Lahore Police intensive crack down against suspected terrorists
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LAHORE: Punjab police has intensified the province wise crack down against the suspected terrorists.
Lahore Police has arrested at least 205 suspects, mostly Afghan nationals in a province-wide search and sweep operation in the last 24 hours.
Search operation is being undertaken by the counter-terrorism department (CTD), police and intelligence agencies. Saturday was the fifth day of the operation.
Police were focusing on intelligence-based search operations to get maximum results from it while all the arrested suspects were shifted to some undisclosed location for further interrogation.
Deployment at all sensitive government installations had been increased and the operation in and around localities of shrines in the province was also being conducted.
The search operation was conducted in Badami Bagh, Raiwind, Civil Lines, Old Anarkali, Gulshan-i-Ravi, Gulberg, Ghalib Market, Nishter Colony, Sanda, Naseerabad, Township and other areas.
A total 144 suspects were arrested in these areas of the city by LEAs. Police also recovered two pistols, 78 bullets, one Kalashnikov and one rifle from them.
The police also used bio-metric machines for identification of people.
