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India-Pakistan
Brothers of Lahore attack facilitator picked up from Bajaur Agency
2017-02-19
[DAWN] Security forces on Saturday took into custody two brothers of Anwaarul Haq, the alleged controller of the Feb 13 suicide kaboom in Lahore, from their residence in Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central
...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth...
of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), security sources said.

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif
...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab...
had announced Haq's arrest in a presser on Friday evening. The suspect's confessional statement was also aired during the briefing.

Acting on information provided by intelligence agencies, security personnel on Saturday raided Haq's house in Mamond tehsil of Bajaur Agency, security sources said.

Haq's two brothers Khalilullah and Hameedullah were taken into custody during the raid.

Several others were nabbed from the area during the operation and shifted to an unknown location for interrogation, the sources added.

In his presser, the Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....

chief minister claimed to have eliminated the terrorist network involved in Monday’s suicide kaboom in Lahore in which 15 people were killed.

Shahbaz said the controller, Anwaarul Haq, had divulged that their network was operating from within Afghanistan.

The suspect in the confessional video said he hailed from a remote village in Bajaur Agency.

"I was associated with Jamaat-ul-Ahrar and they trained me," said the suspect, adding that he has visited Afghanistan around 15 to 20 times.
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