Four TTP members arrested in Islamabad - Pakistan - DAWN.COM
ISLAMABAD: Four Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) members were arrested in Islamabad, following a security forces raid Tuesday night in the area of Khanna.
In the wake of recent terrorist activities in Rawalpindi, security forces carried out raids in Rawalpindi and Islamabad based on tip offs.
According to intelligence sources, a group of terrorists from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa entered the capital to carry out a terrorist attack.
The authorities did not reveal the identities of the four TTP members as other men from the group suspected to be in the capital are yet to be arrested.
Yesterday, a major terror bid was foiled when a suspected suicide bomber was intercepted by police near Rawalpindi.
Know more: Rawalpindi policeman injured in foiled terror bid
Police sources told Dawn that a bus, which was en route to Rawalpindi from Peshawar, was stopped on Main G.T. road.
One of the bus passengers was taken into custody by police on suspicion.
Upon trying to escape, the suspect was fired at by police in response to which he hurled a hand-grenade, injuring one police constable named Shahid.
Also read: Bomb blast at Rawalpindi imambargah kills 8, injures 16
On Jan 10, at least eight people were killed and 16 others were injured in a powerful blast outside an imambargah in Rawalpindi.
“The nature of explosion is immediately unclear but it may be a suicide attack,” Muhammad Salim, a local police official, told AFP.
However, the Bomb Disposal Squad later ruled that explosive material was detonated outside the imambargah and it was not a 'suicide blast'.
Security has been put on a high alert in Rawalpindi and Islamabad following the attack at the imambargah.
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