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| Three militants arrested in Karachi |
| 2010-03-21 |
| [Dawn] A counterterrorism official said police had arrested three Taliban militants and seized a bomb-making factory in Karachi. Raja Omar Khatab says police raided a house in the city's industrial area on Saturday and forced the militants to surrender after a gunbattle. No one was injured. "The three men, who belong to Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were arrested from the Site industrial area during a police encounter on Saturday morning," a senior police official, Raja Omar Khittab told AFP. "We are interrogating the three TTP militants," Khittab said, adding: "We also seized a bomb-making laboratory in the nearby Qaim Khan Colony on the basis of information provided by the rebels." He said the arrested men were planning "big terror attacks" in Karachi, adding that police recovered a huge quantity of explosives, detonators and other equipment from the laboratory. Local intelligence officials confirmed the arrests and said Subhan Ghani, one of the three men, was leader of the trio. He says that after their arrest, the suspects led police elsewhere to the bomb factory. A large number of explosives, detonators and other bomb-making material was seized. |
| Posted by:Fred |