LAHORE: In order to enhance counter-terrorism cooperation, the UK has handed over four sets of Improvised Explosive Device (IED) disposal equipment to the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Police.
The UK also offered an IED disposal course to 20 members of the K-P Police at the Counter IED (CIED) Centre for Excellence in Risalpur, according to official documents obtained by The Express Tribune.
The counter-IED equipment consists of robotic bomb disposal squads. In this regard, a meeting of the Pakistan-UK joint working group on counter terrorism and criminal justice improvement will be held on September 3, 2012 at the interior ministry in Islamabad.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 2nd, 2012.
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