Afghan security forces have arrested five men suspected of involvement in last month’s massacre at a school in Peshawar, an Afghan security source said Saturday.
Several gunmen stormed Army Public School (APS) in Peshawar last month, killing 150 people, mostly children, in the country’s deadliest ever militant attack.
On Saturday an Afghan security source, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed to AFP that his force had recently made five arrests, after Pakistan supplied information to Kabul.
The official said the men, who were not Afghan nationals, were arrested in the troubled border areas between the two countries.
They were accused by Pakistan of aiding the Peshawar school attackers, he said, insisting that the investigation by the Afghan security agencies had not yet established the suspects’ direct association with the attack.
Pakistani officials declined to immediately comment. -AFP
