Tirah operation foils terror plot

He said the suspect was arrested near Peshawar in an operation involving police and security forces.The arrest was made using human intelligence, electronic surveillance and other intelligence resources, Ahsan said.

The suspect belongs to the Mangiyar village in the Chamkaniye area of Afghanistan's Paktia province, he added.Ahsan said the suspect had served in the former Afghan National Army, where he received three months of military training and three months of commando training.

After the Afghan army was dissolved, he used his expertise at various madrassas, resumed training activities and established contacts to facilitate attacks in Pakistan, he said."He also prepared a suicide bomber," Ahsan said, identifying the individual as Akrama, whom the suspect had trained at the Khalid bin Waleed madrassa near Jalalabad.The suspect was linked to the former Gul Bahadur group and had also served as a security guard for its….

In the recording, Hamza said he had studied under a religious scholar for a year before beginning to teach at a madrassa.

Tirah operation foils terror plot Ahtesham Khan | Updated 2 minutes ago | Forces arrest suspect linked to Gul Bahadur group.