Police and intelligence agencies on the move and cracking down after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif took notice of non-implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP).
Counter Terrorism Department (CTD), Punjab police and Rangers, in a joint action, arrested three suspects including accused involved in suicide attack on Shuja Khanzada, from a religious seminary in the federal capital.
The anti-terrorism department after recording statements of eyewitnesses and injured in the attack, have also prepared a caricature of the Attock suicide bomber.
In Lahore, four policemen have been nabbed for alleged links with banned outfits.
Police and intelligence agencies also conducted raids in Sahala, Rawaat, Haripur and Abbottabad and detained more than 20 suspects.
In Multan, intelligence agencies and police launched a search operation in jail and seized letters from three accused affiliated with proscribed groups. The letters would be sent for forensic testing.
Under the NAP, Karachi police started crackdown against private security guards and arrested 17 from district south only.