Summary Police apprehended 22 suspects during search operations in Lahore and Multan on Friday.
LAHORE (Dunya News) – Police and other law enforcement agencies carried out search operation in Lahore and Multan on Friday and arrested 22 suspects, Dunya News reported.
According to details, police conducted search operation in Sabzi Mandi and its adjacent areas in Lahore and arrested 14 suspects who failed to provide an identity document. Biometric device was also used for the identification.
On the other hand, police and law enforcement agencies carried out a joint operation in Badla Sunnat area of Multan and arrested eight suspects. Arms were also recovered from their possession. The arrested persons were sifted to some undisclosed location for further investigation.
A massive crackdown was launched in Punjab against the criminal elements after March 27 suicide attack in Lahore’s Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park in which more than 70 persons were killed and over 300 were wounded.
The suicide attack was claimed by the Tehreek-e-Taliban’s Jamaat-ur-Ahrar faction, which once declared loyalty to Daesh, also known as Islamic State.
The brutality of the attack, Jamaat-ur-Ahrar’s fifth bombing since December, reflects the movement’s attempts to raise its profile among Pakistan’s increasingly fractured militants.
At least 29 children enjoying the outing were among those killed when the suicide bomber struck in a busy park in the heart of Lahore, the power base of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
It was Pakistan’s deadliest attack since the December 2014 massacre of 134 school children at a military-run academy in the city of Peshawar that prompted a government crackdown on militancy.
After the attack, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif directed to launch a large-scale anti-terrorism operation across Punjab.
Hundreds of suspects have been arrested from Faisalabad, Multan, Bahawalpur, Jhelum, Nankana, Lahore, Sheikhpura and other areas since then.
