LAHORE: An intelligence agency with the help of the city police raided a property in Main Market, Gulberg, and two other places in the provincial capital on Friday and picked up a dozen people said to be members of a banned outfit.

A police source told Dawn the suspects, including two ‘commanders’, belonged to banned Hizbut Tehrir. Their laptops, mobile phones, organisation specific literature and sensitive material were also seized during evening raids.

He said the suspects, who were picked up from a rented property in Main Market, Bund Road and Lorry Adda, had been brought to the Ghalib Market police station for further action.

The official said police would interrogate the suspects to probe whether they were working only for their organization or they also carried out some activities for Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (also named as Daesh).

Meanwhile, the suspects along with seized literature were produced before the media at the police station. Police will produce them in court on Saturday (today) to obtain their remand.