Detained: Two female militants arrested

MULTAN: Bahawalanagar district police arrested two female militants and bomb-makers.  Police and intelligence agencies raided sub-district Fort Abbas and Haroonabad on a tip-off. During a raid, they arrested two female bombers from their residence. They have been identified as Zahooran and Manzooran. Nearly 14kg of chemicals were recovered from their possession.  Intelligence officials revealed that both women were residents of Farooqabad Colony and had been under police surveillance for the past two weeks. They were caught and taken into custody while moving from Bahawalanagar to plan their next attack. The captured militants were shifted to an unknown place for further investigations. The chemicals seized from their possession are now in the custody of the police and intelligence agencies.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 6^th,2014.