An
operation has been launched against activists in all over Punjab. The operation
has been initiated following the order of Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General
Raheel Sharif. The decision to launch the operation in Punjab was taken after an
elite military conference at GHQ.
According to Reuters, the authorities are hunting breakaway
Taliban militants who once declared loyalty to ISIS after the group claimed
responsibility for last night’s Easter suicide bomb targeting Christians that
killed 72 people.
The attack in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park in the Iqbal Town area of
Lahore, the powerbase of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, killed mostly women and
children as families enjoyed the Easter weekend outing.
Pakistan is a majority-Muslim state but has a Christian
population of more than 2 million.
Yesterday’s suicide bombing was the deadliest attack in Pakistan
since the December 2014 APS massacre, which killed 134 schoolchildren prompting
a government crackdown on Islamist militancy, and the launch of the National
Action Plan (NAP).
According
to sources, intelligence agencies, Rangers and army conducted five operations
last night. “The operation has been launched in Multan, Faisalabad and Sialkot.
It will be expanded with time,” sources revealed. A number of militants and
their facilitators have been arrested in the operations.
"We
must bring the killers of our innocent brothers, sisters and children to
justice and will never allow these savage inhumans to over-run our life and
liberty," military orator Asim Bajwa said in a post on Twitter.
#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— Gen Asim Bajwa (@AsimBajwaISPR) 28 March 2016
Int agencies with Army& Rangers carried out 5 ops in Lhr,Fsd&Multan since last night. Ops continue with more leads coming in-2— Gen Asim Bajwa (@AsimBajwaISPR) 28 March 2016
Number of suspect terrorists and facilitators arrested and huge cache of arms and ammunition recovered-3— Gen Asim Bajwa (@AsimBajwaISPR) 28 March 2016
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