Mandi killings: 2 suspects arrested

Published October 14, 2005

FAISALABAD, Oct 13: A team of the sensitive agency rounded up two activists of the banned Lashkar-i-Tayyaba for their alleged involvement in Mandi Bahauddin killings.

Sources said a team of the secret police raided two houses in Chak 226-RB, Malkhanwala, and arrested Ashfaq and Basharat Ali.

The special team accompanied by the Elite Force personnel shifted the suspects to Islamabad, the sources said.

They claimed that the arrests were made following a tip off by an arrested person involved in the killing of eight Ahmadis and injuring 23 others in Mandi Bahauddin last Friday.

Ashfaq is senior vice-president of the Markazi Ahle Hadith Youth Force, Faisalabad, and has spent three years in Afghanistan for Jihad training.

CASE: Civil Lines police registered a terrorism case against four students of the University of Agriculture here on Thursday.

Reports said that students Binyamin, Bilal Ahmed, Tariq and Naveed allegedly attacked their rival group of students and injured Nasrullah and Usman at university’s Ayub Hall. The injured were shifted to Allied Hospital.

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