The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of the Punjab Police conducted a raid at an undisclosed location on Tuesday and arrested two alleged activists of a banned outfit. After their arrest, the CTD presented both suspects to the special anti-terrorism court to obtain their physical remand. The suspects belong to the banned Jaish-e-Mohammad (JEM) militant group, CTD claims. The court granted a seven-day-each physical remand of Liaquat Khan and Mohammad Shakir. The court also ordered that the accused be presented before the court on November 17. The CTD has been taking action against banned militant outfits and have arrested several suspects in the last few months. JEM was formed by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he was released from an Indian jail following the hijacking of an Indian Airlines flight in 1999. The group was banned along with several others in 2002 by Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf’s government.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 11th, 2015.
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