Following up with further action on the foiled Central Prison Karachi sabotage plan, law enforcing and spy agencies are hunting suspects in various district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) and adjoining tribal regions.
Senior official sources told The Express Tribune four militants have reportedly been arrested so far. However, the identity of the suspects is not being revealed and they have been shifted to an undisclosed location for further interrogation.
It is believed the suspects are likely to be shifted to Karachi with high-level teams of different law enforcement agencies carrying out the investigation.
According to sources, joint teams of law enforcers and secret agencies have conducted raids in Peshawar, Kohat, Tank, Bannu, Khyber Agency and Bajaur Agency. Further raids are under way. High-ranking civil and police officers are tight-lipped about developments to ensure the investigation is not compromised.
The four arrested suspects, said to be affiliated with a proscribed militant outfit, are believed to be accomplices of the militants who were digging a tunnel to attack Central Prison Karachi. The brazen plot was unearthed when Rangers discovered a 40-metre tunnel under a nearby house.
The militants were only 10 metres away from reaching the prison when they were apprehended. The detained militants later confessed they were planning a suicide attack on the prison during Muharram.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 19th, 2014.
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