IG Punjab Shoaib Dastgir praised the CTD team for its successful action, he further directed to continue the intelligence based operations.
CTD Bahawalnagar foiled the terrorist attempt, 03 heinous terrorists along with ammunitive arms have been detained.
Inspector General of Police Punjab Shoaib Dastgir praised CTD Bahawalnagar team for arresting 03 dangerous terrorists after an intelligence based operation and directed that intelligence based operations against terrorists and extremists should be continued in all districts of the province so that elimination process against activities of proscribed organizations and their miscreants could be boosted up. He further said that special operations should be undertaken against terrorists and also their facilitators so that anti social elements could not succeed in their objectives of spoiling the peace of the society. IG Punjab further said that CTD is playing an instrumental role in eradication of terrorism and its timely actions have considerably reduced the ratio of incidents of the terrorism.
According to the details, CTD Bahawalnagar as per an intelligence based report took action and arrested 03 dangerous terrorists form the Haroon Abad bypass and seized ammunitive arms from them. Imran, Muhammad Abid Sohail and Muhammad Raza were among the terrorists. According to spokesperson CTD, CTD undertook a successful operation on an intelligence report from an authentic source and recovered 07 detonators, safety fuse, 02 boxes of ball bearings, 01 electric battery, 01 electric switch and ammunitive material in two shopping bags. The accused were planning to attack to sensitive installations in Bahawalnagar which was foiled by timely action by CTD team. CTD police registered a case against the accused and initiated further investigation in this regard.
(Handout No.20)
Nayab Haider
Director Public Relations
​Punjab Police
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