Security forces arrest key TTP leaders

QUETTA: Security forces have arrested two key leaders of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in intelligence-based operations.

This news was shared by Balochistan Home Minister Ziaullah Langau during a press conference in Quetta. The minister said Pakistan Army forces have apprehended TTP’s Nasrullah aka Maulvi Mansoor and Idrees aka Irshad.

Radio Pakistan reported that Nasrullah was caught “as a result of a very complicated and difficult operation.”

“The global community should have no doubt left that there is an international terrorist country, India, behind all this,” Langau said after showing Nasrullah’s video statement.

“If you look at the financial [support] or the intelligence of the BLA and the TTP, or their members sitting abroad, there is no doubt that RAW (Research and Analysis Wing) is funding them,” a national daily quoted the minister.

The arrest comes days after a meeting of country’s civil-military brass accorded its approval to the commencement of Operation Azm-e-Istehkam.

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