ASF foils suspected terror bid at Lahore airport

ASF personnel recover huge cache of weapons, ammunition

The Airport Security Force (ASF) on Wednesday foiled a suspected terror bid at Lahore's Allama Iqbal International Airport by recovering a cache of weapons from a car, Express News reported.

According to initial reports, ASF personnel stopped a vehicle at the airport check post, and while searching it, the officials discovered a large cache of weapons and ammunition hidden in the car. Following the incident, the weapons, along with the car and driver were handed over to the police.

Last month, at least 13 people — among them two senior police officials — were killed when a suicide bomber detonated the explosives strapped to his body in the midst of a crowd of protesters outside the Punjab Assembly.

The deadly bombing capped a bloody day as elsewhere in the country three paramilitary soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb attack, while two explosives experts died while defusing a bomb. A splinter group of the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, which has been routed from its stronghold in the tribal regions in a series of military operations, was quick to claim credit for the grisly violence at a protest rally in the Charing Cross area of Lahore.