Islamabad, September 17: A retired Army captain was arrested by a team of police and intelligence operatives from the outskirts of the Pakistani capital for his alleged links with an “anti-state network”.
The suspect was arrested during a raid yesterday in the Rawat area.
The retired captain, who lives in a posh area in the heart of Islamabad, served in the artillery wing of the Pakistan Army before he was forced to retire.
He also contested elections to a seat in the National Assembly or lower house of Parliament in the capital, the Dawn newspaper reported today.
The suspect runs a Rawat-based company, Care and Carrying, which trains retired security personnel and private security guards in anti-terrorism skills.
The newspaper quoted its sources as saying that 200 personnel trained by the company have been deployed with officials of a foreign company in Islamabad and Peshawar.
–Agencies