KARACHI: Two men have been arrested for photographing Karachi’s Saeedabad police training centre, SAMAA learnt Tuesday.
Security has been increased in the southern province of Sindh after a police training centre was attacked in the Punjab Monday in a devastating ambush.
Sources said that the men who were detained spoke Pashto and did not appear to understand Urdu. [Samaa]
In another development, five more persons, involved in the terror attack here in Manawan, were arrested from various areas of Lahore. Sources said that these arrests were made on pointing out by a terrorist Hijratullah, who was arrested from Manawan. [GEO]
The chief of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, Baitullah Mehsud, has told the BBC his group was behind Monday’s deadly attack on a police academy in Lahore. [BBC]
It has emerged that atleast one of the terrorists arrested yesterday is an Afghan national [The News]. Meanwhile, the authorities continue to question the arrested terrorists captured during a police academy siege on the outskirts of Lahore. [Dawn]
According to news correspondents who are inside premises of the Academy, commandos of elite force and army have captured the terrorists alive.
Reports suggest that 4 of the terrorists were taken down by Police snipers, 3 blew themselves up while 4 have been captured alive.
Earlier, hundreds of local residents had gathered to form a security cordon around the area and the police helicopters and to provide refreshments and snacks to the policemen and news reporters. Some of these locals helped capture one of the arrested terrorists as he tried to lob a grenade towards the police helicopter on the ground.
After clearing the compound and arresting the terrorists, the commandos fired in jubilation and screams of “Allah Akber” and “Pakistan Zindabad” could be heard all over.
According to sources, the operation has been successfully completed after eight hours of intense gun battle.
LATEST: FOUR Terrorist Arrested
LAHORE: Security Forces have arrested four terrorists, described as Afghan nationals, during the operation against terrorists entrenched in Manawan Police Training Centre in Lahore. Official sources have not yet confirmed the arrests, however we have information that four terrorists have been arrested and sent to an undisclosed location by helicopter.
Time to cut off rail, air, and road links with India, including denying Indian airlines the right to use Pakistan airspace and denying Indian overland trade to Central Asia pending the investigations and a review by Pakistan of Indian activities inside and around Pakistan.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—A second Mumbai-style attack in Lahore in less than a month, both targeting Lahore, a city that has traditionally bore the brunt of Indian-inspired terrorism inside Pakistan.
The level of training of these people and the choice of targets leaves little doubt that someone is trying to teach Pakistan a lesson. It is baffling to see Interior Advisor Rehman Malik so eager to quickly pin the blame on groups such as Lashkar Tayyeba or Lashkar Jhangvi that were active in the Kashmir freedom struggle in the past and are dormant now. Accusing these groups is an indirect swipe at the Pakistani security and intelligence agencies that implemented State policy in the past of supporting the freedom fighters inside the disputed territory with India.
