LAHORE, April 8 Law-enforcement agencies are said to have traced high-profile terrorist attacks on the Sri Lankan cricket team and the Manawan Police Training School, establishing their links with Waziristan agencies, officials told Dawn on Wednesday.

They claimed two sensitive agencies investigating both the cases had arrested a couple of suspects involved in the Liberty attack while an alleged terrorist, Hijratullah, an Afghan, was captured on the day of Manawan attack.

As the Military Intelligence (MI) and the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), which traced the network with the help of the cell phone tracking system and gleaning information from the suspects, were interrogating the suspects. The names of the attackers, their facilitators and the masterminds and other major breakthrough in the investigation process were being kept secret till final success, sources said.

They said the police were trying to track down local supporters and facilitators of the terrorists in the ongoing crackdown on illegal Afghans and other suspects in the provincial capital to flush them out from the city.

Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Muhammad Parvez Rathore said the sensitive agencies were mainly investigating both attacks and they might have some valuable information about the terrorists and their group.

“Some positive developments have taken place during the investigation of both incidents but details could be made public at an appropriate time,” the CCPO said.

He said Hijratullah had been handed over to the police for court trial, who had already been interrogated by a joint investigation team made to probe the Manawan attack.

The CCPO said the crackdown on Afghans and other illegal residents was in progress and over two dozen illegal Afghans had been arrested in the last 24 hours and booked under the Foreigners Act.

He said all those Afghans and people, who had been living in the city without identity documents, would be dealt with iron hand to eliminate local support to terrorists and would be repatriated to Afghan camps in the NWFP or Afghanistan.