Police constable shot dead, 7 suspected terrorists held

Author: agencie

SWABI: Miscreants shot dead a police constable in Panjpir area of Swabi on Sunday, said police.

The suspects after killing the constable fled from the crime scene.

The body was shifted to hospital for an autopsy. Police after registering a case against culprits have started investigation.

Meanwhile, the Frontier Corps (FC) Balochistan claimed to have arrested five suspected terrorists and recovered weapons from them during several intelligence-based operations (IBOs) in different areas of the province on Sunday.

A statement issued by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said the operations were carried out in Bostan, Dera Murad Jamali, Sibi , Pishin, Lehri and Chattar areas of Balochistan .

A huge cache of arms and ammunition, including rockets, sub-machine guns, mines and explosives were also recovered during the raids, it added.

The raids were part of the ongoing Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad, a military offensive launched in February 2017 against the “latent threat of terrorism”.

Separately, the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) arrested two terrorists of a banned outfit on Sunday.

A spokesman for the CTD said that the operation was conducted on a tip-off. The nabbed suspects were shifted to an undisclosed location for further investigation and important revelations were expected.

Published in Daily Times, February 19th 2018.

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