LANDIKOTAL
Counter Terrorism Department(CTD) of Khyber Pakhunkhwa claimed to have foiled a terrorism bid and arrested four ISIS and Al-Aqida affiliates in Mazrina area of Sultankhel village in Landikotal tehsil in district Khyber, officials sources said on Friday.
The sources said that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa counter terrorism department police on the basis of secret information took action and raided on a compound in the hilly Mazreena locality in Landikotal.
CTD police in a press release said that the arrested persons were the ISIS and Al-Qaida facilitators who were planning to conduct attacks in Peshawar and its surrounding localities.
It it said in the press statement that four terrorists were arrested during the raid in Landikotal and recovered a quanitity of arms and expolisive devices.
The CTD police said that the arrested persons have stored arms and explosives so that they could use it to create chaos in ths country.
CTD Police registered a case against the arrested persons and started investigation.
The items recovered were 2 Jackets, 2 IEDs, 6 anti personal explosive decvices, 58 IED receivers,20 detonators, 1 RPG-7, 13 UBGL, 1 Google postioning system(GPS), 7 Filter rounds,4 hand grinades,14 kilograms explosives, 1kilograms baring balls, 3 MBRL rounds, 42 empty RDS, 4 bundle Prima cards, 10 IED remort control, 8 battries cells, IED remote 1, SB jacket switch 1 digital camera, 1 MBRL fuse,
1 China made hand grinade and other electronics wires.
Meanwhile, residents blocked the Pak-Afghan Highway at Khyber Sultankhel as protest against the CDT Peshawsr raid in Landikotal. They were of the view that local elders and police were not onboard when CTD Peshawar police were raided in Sultankhen village. They said it was an agreement between the authorities and residents that whenever police and security forces conduct raid on homes and other compound they must take elders and local police into confidance.
When contacted Station House Officer(SHO) of Landikotal police station Ishrat Ali Shinwari he told this scribe that they were kept un aware of the CTD action taken in his police station jurisdiction. He said it is the police business rules to inform local police station prior to take an action by police of the other district. He said due to this missmanagement and poor coordination with the CTD Peshawar residents blocked the busy highway for hours that suffered the commutors and created problems for local police.
