IED event in Punjab, Rawalpindi area, Pakistan on Thu 15th December 2022

The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on December 15 arrested a terrorist, identified as Akmal, from Rawalpindi city of Punjab, reports Samaa TV. Akmal was the mastermind of the Civil Lines suicide attack on November 2, 2009, which claimed the lives of 36 people. A spokesperson for the CTD said that the terrorist had devised plans to attack Islamabad and Rawalpindi. A cache of explosives, including four detonators and safety fuses used to make suicide vests, were also recovered from the possession of arrested terrorist. “A military court has already announced its verdict and found his two accomplices guilty in the attack,” the spokesperson said, adding that the two accomplices of the alleged terrorist are currently serving their sentence in Rawalpindi prison.