KARACHI: Countrywide crackdown against terrorists and criminal elements continues as the law enforcement agencies apprehended dozens more under the operation Raddulfasaad from Lahore, Islamabad, Sialkot and Peshawar on late Friday and early Sunday morning.
According to reports, Islamabad police arrested 43 suspects, including four Afghan nationals from different bus stops and bus stations. Meanwhile, in Lahore, during search operations in hostels of Punjab University and other areas of the city, seven suspects were taken into custody.
Earlier, on Friday six terrorists were killed in an encounter with the counter-terrorism force (CTF) in Muzaffargarh on Thursday night while four managed to escape.
Part of the ongoing countrywide crackdown against terrorists in Pakistan, the counter-terrorism force in Muzzafargarh carried out an operation near the PT link canal in the Pati Sultan Mahmood area to apprehend a terrorist belonging to the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ).
Law enforcers seized a large cache of arms and ammunition including 2 government-issued rifles, 3 pistols and hand grenades from those killed in the encounter.
