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26 terror suspects arrested

REPORT IN The News, Jan 12, 2023LAHORE:The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) Punjab arrested 26 terror suspects from different part of the province. According to a spokesperson for the CTD, on the directions of the Punjab IG, the CTD Punjab conducted extensive and coordinated combing operations across the Punjab to avert any untoward incident. The CTD conducted 40 combing and search operations in which 40 localities were checked in different districts of Punjab, he said, and…

CTD arrests 12 terror suspects

Report in Dawn, December 18th, 2022LAHORE: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed on Saturday to have arrested 12 terror suspects during operations across Punjab. The CTD spokesperson said the law-enforcement agency conducted operations in several districts, including Lahore, and arrested 12 suspects belonging to proscribed organisations. The suspects were identified as Muhammad Arif, Zakirullah, Khurram Ali, Awais Khan, Akmal Shahbaz, Jannat Khan, Jalaat Khan, Irfan Khan, Javaid Khan, Baseer Khan, Adam Khan and Zahid Khan.…

CTD nabs four members of banned outfits

Report in Dawn, Dec 11th, 2022LAHORE: The Punjab Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed on Saturday to have arrested four suspects belonging to proscribed organisations from different areas of the province. The CTD conducted 30 intelligence-based operations (IBOs) in different districts of Punjab in which 30 suspects were interrogated. During these IBOs, four suspects identified as Danish of Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan, Raziq Afridi alias Abu Bakar of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Muzaffar Mehmood of militant Islamic State group…

Punjab PTI MPAs oppose assembly’s immediate dissolution

By Zeeshan Bakhsh in The News, Dec 02, 2022LAHORE: Several Punjab lawmakers belonging to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf PTI have advised the party’s Chairman Imran Khan against dissolving the provincial assembly immediately, Geo News reported on Thursday quoting sources. The development came after the party’s high-level committee submitted a report in relation to the dissolution of the Punjab Assembly to Khan, sources said. The lawmakers advised the PTI chief not to immediately dissolve the assembly, citing…

Exit Strategy: edit in The Nation, Nov 29, 2022

PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s ‘surprise’ of dissolving the Punjab and KP as­semblies while moving out of the Balochistan and Sindh houses simulta­neously will be a cause for concern for the government going forward. The issue of PTI resignations from the National Assembly is already in flux, but while the NA can be functional without proper opposition in place, PTI’s exit from the provincial houses will be much more troublesome for the PDM alliance. The federal…