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Pakistan: Paramilitary operation launched in Punjab

| | Mar 29, 2016, at 01:09 am
Lahore, Mar 28 (IBNS) In a bid to hunt down terrorists responsible for the Lahore attacks on Sunday, Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif on Monday chaired a high-level security meeting in order to review the progress of a paramilitary operation in the country's Punjab province.

"COAS chaired a high lvl security mtng at GHQ today to review progress of op in Punjab to nab terrorists in the aftermath of Lahore Blast-1," DG ISPR Lt-Gen Asim Saleem Bajwa tweeted.

"Int agencies with Army& Rangers carried out 5 ops in Lhr,Fsd&Multan since last night. Ops continue with more leads coming in-2," he said.

"Number of suspect terrorists and facilitators arrested and huge cache of arms and ammunition recovered-3," he said.

At least 70 people were killed and 300 others were injured in a suicide attack in Pakistan's Lahore city on Sunday.
 

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