Kamra attack suspect arrested

TAXILA, Aug 23: Law enforcement agencies on Thursday picked up a man from Hassanabdal in connection with the attack on PAF base Minhas in Kamra.

Sources said a contingent of law enforcement agencies backed by Elite Force raided Mehmoodabad locality on Hazara Road in the limits of Hassanabdal police station and picked up Abdul Ghaffar alias Farri, a computer hardware expert, and shifted him to an undisclosed location.

Sources said the man had remained associated with a banned religious organisation for a long time. At present he was engaged in computer hardware business. —Correspondent

President’s route changed

RAWALPINDI, Aug 23: President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday used Benazir Bhutto Road to reach his official residence in Islamabad from Chaklala Airbase.

A senior police official confirmed that President Zardari’s VVIP convoy on Thursday night took the route apparently for security reasons.

Islamabad Expressway is the designated route for VVIP convoys.

According to the sources, the traffic police and special branch officials were deployed along the alternative route.  However, police were not detailed along the route to keep the VVIP movement secret.

It was the City Traffic Police who managed the traffic and cleared the route for the VVIP movement.

The VVIP convoy took the Rawal Road, Chandni Chowk, Rehmanabad and Faizabad to reach its destination in Islamabad.—Staff Reporter