Summary Usman Ghani was brought to Islamabad with the help of Interpol.
ISLAMABAD (Web Desk)- Alleged terrorist involved in attack on Army Public School (APS) attack in Peshawar was arrest from Italy, Dunya News reported on Thursday.
According to sources, Usman Ghani was arrested with the help of the international police or Interpol and was repatriated to Islamabad on a private airline early on Thursday. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) took custody of the accused upon his arrival.
According to an FIA official, a suspect, who was caught earlier for his involvement in the attack, disclosed about Usman that he had fled to Italy, a few days after the attack on December 16 last year.
Usman Ghani belongs to Swabi district in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and is also involved in other anti-state activities.
The suspect was shifted for interrogation shortly after he was handed over to the FIA at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport, officials told.
APS ATTACK
In the deadliest slaughter of innocents in Pakistan in years, Tehreek-e-Taliban gunmen on 16 December 2014 attacked the military-run school and killed 150 people — most of them students — before government troops ended the siege.
A little more than 1,000 students and staff were registered at the school, which is part of a network run by the military, although the surrounding area was not heavily fortified at the time of the attack.
The army spokesman, Lt. Gen. Asim Bajwa, had earlier said that 12 suspects have been arrested in connection with the attack. They all belonged to the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
Security officials say that the attack was planned by Mullah Fazlullah, the TTP chief, who fled to Afghanistan after a massive military operation in Swat valley in 2009.
WAR ON TERROR
The army launched the "Zarb-e-Azb" operation in June 2014 in a bid to wipe out militant bases in North Waziristan tribal area and so bring an end to the bloody decade-long militancy that has cost Pakistan thousands of lives.
The army intensified its offensive after the Peshawar school attack and since then there has been something of a lull in violence.
