17 alleged members of ISIS held in Lahore

Seventeen suspected members or recruiters of ISIS, including an engineer and an IT professional, have been arrested here under an anti-terrorism operation to wipe out the threat posed by the terror group in the country.

“The 17 suspected ISIS members, including an engineer and an IT professional, have been arrested from different parts of Lahore during the last couple of days,” a police source said on Sunday.

IT professional Ahmad Rizwan and engineer Talha were arrested from Awan town on the information given by their alleged accomplice Usman Malik.

Malik and two others were arrested from Lahore’s Sham Nagar area last week, during a series of raids by counter-terrorism officials to nab the alleged supporters and activists of the dreaded terrorist group in Pakistan.

Another arrested suspect has been identified as Kamran Gujjar who is an ISIS recruiter, the source said. “Kamran, his wife and a sister-in-law was running an NGO and recruiting women in their group.”

Deputy inspector-general of Lahore police, Haider Ashraf, said the operation against suspected members of the ISIS group would continue.