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Pakistan: Five terrorists running Al-Qaeda’s media cell arrested

| @indiablooms | Dec 27, 2019, at 04:30 pm

Islamabad/IBNS:  A joint operation conducted by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) and an intelligence agency in Pakistan led to the arrest of five terrorists who were suspected to be running Al-Qaeda's media cell in Gujranwal area in the nation, media reports said on Friday.

According to CTD officials, intelligence agencies had been keeping a track of the terrorists for several months and collecting information on them, reported Geo News.

The arrested people were identified as Asim Akbar, Abdullah, Umair, Ahmed alias Qasim, Muhammad Yousuf and Muhammad Yaqoob.

CTD officials told Geo News the "suspected terrorists were planning to carry out an attack in Gujranwala and that they recovered improvised explosive devices (IED), suicide jackets and weapons from them". 

Official told the Pakistan-based news channel that  the arrested people were "sending funds to the leadership based in Afghanistan".

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