ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on Saturday that terrorists involved in Lahore and Peshawar blasts have been identified.
“Afghan refugees are used as facilitators in most cases of terrorist attacks,” he stressed, demanding the refugees from Afghanistan to point out the ‘black sheep’ within them.
Nisar said that further facilitators involved in Lahore suicide blast have also been arrested. The interior minister professed that the facilitators in the recent wave of terrorism were arrested from districts Attock, Hazro and Taxila.
A nationwide security alert was announced on Friday according to which shrines of saints and other worship places will remain closed in major cities like Lahore, Peshawar, Karachi, Quetta and Islamabad. Checking points were formed in Rawalpindi and Islamabad while security forces killed at least 100 suspects in the country.