Pakistan’s security agencies late on Sunday night arrested a key suspect of Peshawar army school massacre.
According to LEAs, alleged suspect, Mohammad Arshad, was arrested in a raid on a house located in Mohallah (neighborhood) Khursheed Abad here.
During the search of the house, a laptop, a couple of mobile phones, maps, etc were seized by the intelligence agencies’ personnel.
It has also been divulged that Arshad’s brother-in-law, Aka Mohammad Ashfaq, is also suspected to be one of the dozens of accomplices/abettors in Peshawar attack.
He was also wanted in Islamabad Marriot Hotel attack, but Ashfaq, escaped to Afghanistan along with his wife.
It is also believed that he is actively operating from across the porous Pakistan-Afghanistan border, which allows his ilk to freely shuttle between the two countries.
According to sources at least 247 including Afghan nationals were held from Islamabad alone. Moreover, dozens of similar arrests were also made in Peshawar.
Earlier authorities claimed making several arrests in the case of the Taliban attack that killed 148 in Peshawar.
“Quite a few suspects who were facilitators in one way or the other have been taken into custody,” Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said, adding that the interrogations were “moving ahead in a positive manner.” He did not disclose their identities or say how many they were.
