LEAs in action after PM, COAS take notice of non-implementation of NAP

LAHORE: Police and intelligence agencies came in action after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif took notice of non-implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP).

Counter Terrorism Department of Punjab police and Rangers, in a joint action, arrested three suspects including accused involved in suicide attack on Shuja Khanzada, from a religious seminary in the federal capital.

The anti-terrorism department after recording statements of eyewitnesses and injured in the attack, have also prepared a sketch of the Attock suicide bomber.



In Lahore, four policemen have been nabbed for alleged links with banned outfits.

Police and intelligence agencies also conducted raids in Sahala, Rawaat, Haripur and Abbottabad and detained more than 20 suspects.

In Multan, intelligence agencies and police launched a search operation in jail and seized letters from three accused affiliated with proscribed groups. The letters would be sent for forensic testing.

Under the NAP, Karachi police started crackdown against private security guards and arrested 17 from district south only.

Earlier today, PM Nawaz Sharif chaired a high-level meeting to review the internal security situation and implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP).

The meeting discussed ways to prevent terrorist financing, hate speech and literature. It was also pointed that no progress had been made in Madrassah reforms.

Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, Prime Minister’s Advisor’s on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz and Tariq Fatimi among others attended the meeting.

The meeting comes a day after the military launched a ground offensive against the local and foreign militants in the remote and mountainous Shawal Valley of North Waziristan.