Eight held in mosque raid near Peshawar

Area has witnessed many terrorist incidents in the past

PESHAWAR: Security forces arrested eight people from a mosque in two raids in Sheikhan village near Badhaber, local residents said.

“Security forces raided a mosque overnight and arrested four people,” a local elder told The Express Tribune on Friday. The next morning another raid was conducted and another four people were arrested,” he added.



The village lies in close proximity to the Bara area of Khyber Agency and witnessed years of lawlessness in the past. However, locals said the situation remained largely peaceful because of the presence of the security forces in the area.

Meanwhile, Frontier Corps (FC) Balochistan conducted an intelligence-based operation (IBO) on a terrorist hideout in Zhob district, according to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Friday. The paramilitary forces arrested a Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) facilitator during the raid.



In Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), security forces conducted IBOs in Mandi Khel near Dosaali, North Wazirstan Agency and recovered a large amount of weapons and ammonium including guns, mortars, rocket launchers, improvised explosive devices (IEDs), communication equipment and extremist literature.