Police forces foiled terrorist plot by arresting three militants in northwestern Pakistan

Three militants of a banned outfit were arrested on Wednesday in Charsadda district of Pakistan’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police sources said.

“Police have saved Charsadda from a massive terrorist activity by timely arresting three militants who were planning to play havoc in the district by carrying out series of attacks including remote-controlled blasts and suicide attacks,” sources from Charsadda police told Xinhua.

The sources added that one of the arrested militants is “very dangerous and facilitator of an influential militant commander who is involved in many cases of terrorist attacks,” and had been meeting and reporting to him many times.

The cops also recovered arms and explosive materials from the possession of the militants who also confessed that they were training a suicide bomber to attack a police station and patrolling police vehicles in the district.

The militants were also involved in target killings in the province, and killed many people for terrorism extortion, the sources said, adding that the three militants have been handed over to the Counter Terrorism Department for further investigations.

Source: Xinhua Net