Report in Dawn, July 16th, 2023LAHORE: The Punjab Counter Terrorism Department claimed on Saturday to have arrested five suspected terrorists linked with different banned outfits during operations in different areas of the province. As per its spokesman, the CTD conducted 47 intelligence-based operations (IBOs) in different districts of the province to avert any incident of terrorism. During these IBOs, 47 suspects were interrogated and five alleged terrorists were arrested with weapons, explosives and other prohibited…
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By Arshad Dogar in The News, Mar 13, 2023LAHORE: The Punjab Counter Terrorism Department arrested four suspects in 45 combing operations in different parts of the province on Sunday. According to the Punjab CTD spokesman, the police conducted 45 combing operations in various districts of the province with the help of local police and security agencies and arrested four suspected persons and registered cases against them. Giving details of the operations, the spokesperson said that…
report in The Nation, Mar 5, 2023LAHORE – The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) Punjab has arrested eight alleged terrorists of banned outfits during intelligence based operations across Punjab. According to the spokesman, the CTD Punjab conducted 31 intelligencebased operations in different districts of the province to effectively deal with any untoward incident of terrorism, in which 33 suspected persons were interrogated and eight alleged terrorists were arrested with weapons, explosives and other prohibited materials. He…
Report in Dawn, Feb 5th, 2023LAHORE: The Punjab Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed on Saturday to have arrested 10 members of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Al-Qaeda from different areas of the province. The CTD conducted extensive 20 intelligence-based operations (IBOs) in different districts across the province to avert any untoward incident. The CTD arrested 10 suspects belonging to TTP and Al-Qaeda/LeJ during the IBOs. The suspects were identified as Abdul Rehman, Roid Khan, Hanifullah…
REPORT IN The News, Jan 12, 2023PESHAWAR: A police post was attacked with a grenade in Tarnab and a commando of the Counter-Terrorism Department was wounded during an encounter with alleged terrorists in Abshar Colony in the provincial capital on Wednesday. “The CTD commandoes arrested four terrorists after an encounter in Abshar Colony on Warsak Road. One policeman was slightly injured when the terrorists opened fire on the CTD raiding team,” an official said. The…
by Muhammad Amir Rana in Dawn, December 21st, 2022“WHAT can Khyber Pakhtunkhwa learn from Punjab to effectively counter the threat of terrorism?” A Peshawar University student asked this question during a recently-held seminar in the presence of lawmakers, academia, and security experts. At the time, none of the speakers took the question as seriously as they should have, given the worsening security situation in KP. In the past year alone, terrorists belonging to the Tehreek-i-Taliban…
by Rizwan Shehzad in The Express Tribune, Dec 20, 2022 PISLAMABAD: A highly critical report, prepared by security agencies, painted a bleak picture of the anti-terrorism mechanism in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, saying on Monday that the province’s Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) lacked capacity to fight terrorism. The report, presented to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif during the national security review meeting, warned that because of an acute shortage of staff and resources, the CTD would not be able to…
report in The Nation, Dec 10, 2022PESHAWAR – Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) in an intelligence-based joint operation with security forces arrested four alleged members of Attiq-ur-Rehman, alias Tipu Group, in Lakki Marwat, said a press release issued on Friday. The arrested terrorists were allegedly involved in recent terrorist activities including target killings of police personnel, extortion and attacks on police installations. CTD has also recovered arms and ammunition from their possession. In another operation, another alleged…