DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Police foiled a terror plot by seizing a suicide jacket and bomb-making material during a raid at a house here on Sunday.

According to police, the raid was conducted on a tip-off that member of a terrorist group named Numan Adil Gandapur had set up a factory for making explosives in the house at the Zafarabad colony of Dera city, and also possessed illegal weapons.

SHO Dera town police station Mohammad Adnan and his team along with the bomb disposal squad personnel raided the house but the suspected terrorist was not present there. However, the police recovered ball bearings weighing 11kg, explosives, safety fuses and a suicide jacket from the house.

The police registered a case against Numan Adil and started search for him.

Meanwhile, a man was shot dead allegedly by his opponents while he was going to a local court in Tank, police said on Sunday.

Mr Pervez, son of the victim, Aurangzeb, lodged first information report with the city police station, nominating Barkatullah and Inamullah for murdering his father while he was going to a local court for hearing a case. The incident occurred in the busy Kashmir Chowk of Tank bazaar.

The police said that the accused escaped after the killing.

Published in Dawn, September 8th, 2014