TAXILA, Sept 3: Investigators have picked up a furniture dealer from Nawababad near Taxila in connection with the Wah Cantonment twin suicide attacks.

Sources said in the light of the information gleaned from Hamidullah, a suspected suicide bomber who was taken into custody from outside the Pakistan Ordnance Factories, the law enforcement agencies arrested Jallad Khan, who hailed from the tribal region and was running a furniture shop on the G.T. Road near Taxila.

The detainee has been shifted to some undisclosed located for interrogation.

Some government reports had revealed that the Indian Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) was involved in the attacks.

POLICEMEN BOOKED: The Hassanabdal police booked two officials of the department for allegedly assaulting a dancer at gun point.

The victim, Iftikhar Ali, told the police that he was sleeping at Kareem Khan hotel when Saeed Khan and Hussain Badshah, two policemen from Hassanabdal, came there and took him to a separate room for investigation where they allegedly assaulted him.

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