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The Additional Inspector General of Police in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Shaukat Abbas, said on Friday that the Counter Terrorism Department has apprehended a key suspect linked to the Peshawar mosque bombing that killed dozens in January as he attributed the attack to a splinter faction of the proscribed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). On Jan 30, a powerful explosion ripped through a mosque in Peshawar’s …

LAHORE: The Punjab Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed to have arrested the mastermind as well as the facilitator of the Johar Town bomb blast from Balochistan. The arrests came during an intelligence-based operation carried out by the CTD with the coordination of the top intelligence agencies. Talking to the media at the Central Police Office on Thursday, Punjab CTD DIG …