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Security forces detained on Wednesday at least 21 suspects, including members of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan in raids across Lahore.
According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the operation was jointly carried out by Pakistan Rangers and Punjab Police with the help of intelligence agencies.
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The suspects, the military's media wing said, are members of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Swat, illegal Afghan immigrants as well as those belonging to the kidnapping mafia.
The joint search operations are being carried out as part of Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad, military's latest offensive against "latent threat of terrorism". The raids have been particularly intensified after Monday's suicide attack in the Punjab capital, which claimed 26 lives, including nine policemen.
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