PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) police’s special unit on Saturday arrested four people in Peshawar with alleged links to banned outfit Hizbut Tahrir (HuT).
Police sources said that the four were activists of the proscribed HuT and were campaigning to bring more people into the organisation’s fold.
The law enforcement personnel also claimed to have confiscated pamphlets, leaflets, news magazines and Compact Discs (CDs) aimed at promoting HuT agenda.
A personal computer, cellphones and few pistols were also recovered from the suspects who were moved to an undisclosed location for interrogation after registration of a First Information Report (FIR) of their arrest.
Banned in Pakistan in November 2003, HT is believed to be a global organisation that has organisational structure in several countries with main concentration in Muslim states.
Earlier this month, police in Karachi arrested an engineering and business graduate allegedly working for the HuT.
The suspect, Owais Raheel, targeted educated youth in the city’s Defence and Clifton areas in order to use them “for illegal activities” with a view to implementing “Khilafa” in the country, the police had said.
Meanwhile, in a raid in KP’s Hangu district, security forces recovered a huge cache of heavy weapons from a terrorist hideout.
Security officials claimed that the weapons and ammunition were recovered from Hangu’s Thall tehsil during a search operation initiated to avoid untoward incidents during Muharram processions.
