Pakistan Arrests Militant Members Related To Suicide Bombs Near Court

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JAKARTA - Pakistani authorities arrested militant members on suspicion of their involvement in a deadly suicide bombing outside district courts in the capital. The attack killed 12 people and injured 28 others.

The two men are suspected of being members of the Banned Pakistan Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP). One of the suspects, Sajid Ullah, is believed to have held a bomb used in an suicide attack in a court in Islamabad on Tuesday.

The two men were arrested in a joint operation by the Bureau of Intelligence and the State Department of Anti-terrorism.

The arrest came a day after Pakistani Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said Afghan nationals carried out suicide bombings in Islamabad and northwestern Pakistan earlier this week.

Ullah told investigators, Saeed-ur-Rehman, a TTP commander, ordered an attack in Islamabad via a Telegram messaging app. The commander, also known as Kamadullah, sent photos of the suicide bomber, an Afghan national, to Ullah on orders to receive them after he crossed the border into Pakistan from Afghanistan, where he lives in Nangarhar Province, the government said.

Ullah arranged accommodation for suicide bombers near Islamabad and then took suicide vests from a cemetery in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on his own instructions before transporting the vest to the capital, the government said.

Berhitullah, yang berasal dari wilayah Bajaur di Pakistan, merupakan bagian dari wing intelijen TTP dan saat ini berhiduk di Afghanistan.