Lahore, December 10: The five “high value” terror suspects arrested in the eastern city of Sargodha are US nationals with links to the banned Jaish-e-Mohammed and were allegedly planning terror attacks in Pakistan, a senior police official said today.
All five youths were on the US Federal Bureau of Investigation’s “watch list” and were nabbed after police received a tip-off about their suspicious activities, Sargodha district police chief Usman Anwar said.
The youths had links with the banned Jaish-e-Mohammed, which is blamed for a number of terror attacks in India, and a scrutiny of their laptop computers and email accounts had revealed that they were in touch with militants and were “planning for terror attacks”, Anwar told PTI.
Asked if the youths also had links with Al Qaida, Anwar said: “They are high value suspects but I can?t say anything more at the moment.
–Agencies