LAHORE: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) claims to have arrested 11 suspects belonging to the defunct organisations during raids carried out across the province.

A CTD spokesperson said the arrests came after several teams conducted 55 extensive intelligence-based operations in different districts of Punjab.

During operations, the CTD interrogated 56 suspects and arrested 11 of them who belonged to the various banned militant organisations, including Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Sipah-e-Sahaba.

They were identified as Najeeb Ullah, Muhammad Tahir, Muhammad Aftab, Kaleem Ullah, Manzoor Khan, Niaz Muhammad, Muhammad Zubair, Abdul Sami, Muhammad Hussain Muavia, Muhammad Danyal, Muhammad Zubair, Of them Zubair was declared proclaimed offender, the spokesperson further said.

The CTD teams recovered from them explosives, detonators, a hand grenade and other banned items.He said during this week, 795 combing operations were conducted with the help of local police and law enforcement agencies in Punjab. — Staff Reporter