21 suspects arrested during operations in Lahore, Gujranwala
Police arrested 21 suspects during search operations in Lahore and Gujranwala on Monday.
LAHORE (Dunya News) – Crackdown against criminals continued in different parts of Punjab and police arrested 21 suspects during search operations in Lahore and Gujranwala on Monday, Dunya News reported.
According to details, police conducted a search operation on a tip-off in Karim Block of Iqbal Town. Police checked the identity documents of the residents during search operation. At least nine suspects, who failed to produce identity documents, were taken into custody.
On the other hand, police and intelligence agencies launched a joint operation in Satellite Town, Sharif Town, Rati Jhal, Chachar Wali and other areas of Gujranwala and arrested 12 suspects.
According to SSP Civil Lines, only those persons were taken into custody who failed to produce any identity document.
A massive crackdown was launched in Punjab against the criminal elements after March 27 suicide attack in Lahore’s Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park in which more than 70 persons were killed and over 300 were wounded.
The suicide attack was claimed by the Tehreek-e-Taliban’s Jamaat-ur-Ahrar faction, which once declared loyalty to Daesh, also known as Islamic State.
The brutality of the attack, Jamaat-ur-Ahrar’s fifth bombing since December, reflects the movement’s attempts to raise its profile among Pakistan’s increasingly fractured militants.
At least 29 children enjoying the outing were among those killed when the suicide bomber struck in a busy park in the heart of Lahore, the power base of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
It was Pakistan’s deadliest attack since the December 2014 massacre of 134 school children at a military-run academy in the city of Peshawar that prompted a government crackdown on militancy.
After the attack, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif directed to launch a large-scale anti-terrorism operation across Punjab.
Hundreds of suspects have been arrested from Faisalabad, Multan, Bahawalpur, Jhelum, Nankana, Lahore, Sheikhpura and other areas since then.
