Bomb Disposal Squad: ‘Up to 25% terror acts foiled in K-P'

PESHAWAR: Additional Inspector General Bomb Disposal Squad Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Shafqat Malik, said on Thursday that the squad had foiled “25 per cent of terror acts” in the province by defusing bombs, suicide jackets, fuses and other explosive material out of which 20 per cent were solely seized in Peshawar.

Malik said that the squad had defused 250 kilogrammes of explosives and averted major terror plots.

He added that bomb disposal units had been set up across the province.



Published in The Express Tribune, June 3^rd, 2011.