The city police claimed to have foiled a terrorist bid and seized an explosives-laden motorcycle from the limits of the Pishtakhara police station late on Tuesday, officials said.
The area where the motorcycle was seized is close to the border of the Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency, some 10 kilometres southwest of the city. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Tahir Ayub and SP Cantonment Circle Dr Mian Saeed Ahmed told a press conference that police defused the explosives, after taking the bike into custody.
Ayub said that at a police check-point near Achini village, police signalled a motorcyclist to stop; however, he sped away, breaking the police cordon. A chase then followed, which led to the capture of the abandoned bike, although the driver managed to escape. The official pointed fingers towards Bara-based militant outfit Lashkar-e-Islam for the botched attempt.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 2nd, 2012.
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IEDs are homemade devices so difficult to stop production, we need to check the markets from where these people are getting explosive materials.
IEDs are getting monitored in our country. and our authorities taking action against IEDs.
It is appreciable that our police is working day and night to control the menace of terrorism, particularly, IEDs, which is the main reason why terrorists succeed in attacking civilians and security forces. I guess there is dire need to define a mechanism that controls the spread of IEDs and materials that are used in their making.