[DAWN] HANGU: Security forces on Tuesday incarceratedDon't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
four members of the banned outfit Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) during a raid in the Chapri Naryab region.
TTP commander alias Lal Sher was among the four suspected hard boyz who were later taken to an unknown location for further interrogation.
Weapons and bombs were also recovered from their hideout, security forces said.
Hangu had been on the frontline of a seven-year-long Taliban insurgency and borders the semi-autonomous Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) and the northwestern tribal region of Orakzai, one of Pakistain's seven lawless districts on the Afghan border considered to be the hub of Taliban and Al Qaeda-linked Lion of Islams.
Last year, it was the stage of several deadly Taliban attacks on security forces and civilians alike.