On Monday, the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) announced that it had detained “four key terrorists” associated with the TTP, a banned militant group that was responsible for the suicide assault that took place in Bisham last month.
On March 26, while traveling from Islamabad to a hydroelectric dam construction site in Dasu, five Chinese engineers and their Pakistani driver were killed in a suicide attack in KP’s Bisham. The attack occurred in the Shangla district of Bisham city, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
China demanded protection for its citizens and a comprehensive investigation into the tragic bomb in response to the incident. Islamabad responded by announcing a prompt investigation to bring the “perpetrators and accomplices” to justice. Chinese detectives had come to work on the investigation as well.
The administration also made the decision to establish a joint investigation team to look into the attack in response to the Chinese government’s demand that the incident be looked into right away and that those responsible be held accountable.
Due to carelessness and security shortcomings that resulted in the Bisham attack, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif issued an order against five senior police officers earlier this month.
The KP CTD spokesperson described the arrests as a significant advancement and stated in a statement today that the department had taken four Mansehra district citizens into custody: Adil Shehbaz, Muhammad Shafiq Qureshi, Zahid Qureshi, and Nazeer Hussain.
Shehbaz had “confessed to the attack,” according to the statement, which also claimed that all four of the arrested were connected to the TTP.
The CTD named him as the mastermind and claimed that Shehbaz lived in the Jalalabad district of Afghanistan and had acknowledged having a crucial part in the execution of the Bisham attack.
Additionally, he has admitted to having ties to the TTP.
