Security high-alert in Islamabad after 70 suspects held
Two search operations were carried out in different localities in the early hours today
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Security has been lifted to high-alert in the federal capital on Friday after 70 suspects were detained in search operations in Sohala and Tarnol and weapons were seized.
Snap-checking at entry and exit points of the city has been tightened while officials have been instructed to patrol in their respective areas. Security of media houses, markets, key installations, education institutes and business points has been consolidated.
Earlier today in the morning hours, security personnel conducted search operations in Pathan Colony of Sohala area and a market in the locality.
At least sixty persons were detained in the operation as they failed to produce any evidence of their identity. All the persons lacking identity cards and required documents were shifted to a local police station for interrogation.
Senior Superintendent of Police, Sajid Kiyani commented that search operations launched every now and then aimed at making the capital secure.
Meanwhile, ten suspects were held in another search operation in Tarnol area. Personnel seized unregistered weapons and bullets from their possession.
Around four months ago, two of the most wanted terrorists belonging to banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi were nabbed in a similar kind of operation in Tarnol area.
Both of them were living under covers in the locality in guises of a driver and a motor mechanic.
The action taken by police in the capital and other law enforcement agencies has come in hours apart of killing of four suicide bombers in Peshawar and an attack in District Court in Mardan, both in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that borders the federal capital.
Over 12 casualties were reported in Mardan attack until filing of this report while emergency was imposed in different hospitals as over 25 wounded were to be treated.
The two attacks have come in a day after Inter-Services Public Relations Director General, Lt General Asim Saleem Bajwa claimed that at least 900 terrorists were killed in Khyber Operation that crippled the nexus which posed a constant threat to Peshawar and immediate surroundings.
