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| Five arrested over attack on spy agency |
| 2010-12-04 |
| [Geo News] Five suspects have been jugged which are linked to an attack on a spy agency building in Lahore last year which killed 24 people, the police chief said. "The suspects have confessed their role in the suicide kaboom on the intelligence agency building," police chief Aslam Tareen told news hounds, adding that the group had been planning more terror attacks. "The five were jugged a couple of days ago from Shahdara," a neighbourhood in Lahore, the country's eastern hub, Tareen told a presser. "We are in a warlike situation and this war on terror has spread across Pakistain, but we are trying to do our best to maintain security," he said. It would take time to complete the investigation, he added. Police said the suspects belonged to the previously unknown Al-Toheed-wa-al-Jihad faction which falls under the umbrella of jihad boy group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), and had trained in North Wazoo. "They were activating themselves and planning terrorist activities in Lahore," Tareen said. The group was also engaged in kidnapping for ransom, an investigator said. "They kidnapped people for ransom in 2009 in Faisalabad and Sialkot," senior police investigator Zulfiqar Hameed told the presser. "Their next target was some security forces buildings in Lahore," he said. "Police have recovered four boom jackets, one rifle, 32 hand grenade pins, 13 number plates of vehicles, eight mortar shells and ammunition." |
| Posted by:Fred |