Khan had been wanted for a 2013 attack on security forces in Rawalpindi. PHOTO: REUTERS/FILE
The unit raided a house in Badhaber based on a tip-off and took Mohmand Agency resident Wahid Khan into custody.
Police said Khan, a target killer, had been wanted for his involvement in an attack on security forces in Dhok Zareen, Rawalpindi, in the fall of 2013 which left one soldier dead.
The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) will hand Khan over to Rawalpindi police.
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The CTD, which includes the SPU, has been instrumental in arresting several wanted criminals in the past.
On March 1, the department arrested two alleged target killers from Abbottabad involved in the 2016 killing of Shia engineer Yousuf Hussain, an Executive Engineer of Peshawar Electric Supply Company.
On March 9, last year, the SPU arrested a suspected facilitator of the attack on Pakistan Air Force base in Badhaber. According to a press release issued at the time, Zari Zadgai alias Perveen, wife of Mewa Khan, confessed to providing food and empty bottles to the terrorists which were then used to assemble explosive devices.
Taliban militants dressed in official uniforms had attacked the air force base in Badhaber on September 18, 2015, killing at least 29 people, most of them soldiers.
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