Sakhi Sarwar Attack: Two more suspects arrested

Intelligence agencies in Lahore arrested two suspected terrorists and shifted them to an unidentified location.

LAHORE: The intelligence agencies in Lahore arrested two suspected terrorists on Tuesday and shifted them to an unidentified location. Agency officials said that Abdul Malik, 17, and Sufiyan, 23, were arrested from Shahdara area on information retrieved from Umer, the would-be suicide bomber in the Sakhi Sarwar Darbar blast in Dera Ghazi Khan who survived. Police sources revealed that both suspects had come to Lahore two days before the attack. Malik, police said, is a resident of Multan and Sufyan a resident of Sargodha. The police have arrested five people so far on information taken from Umer.



Published in The Express Tribune, April 13^th, 2011.