RAWALPINDI: Police arrested 12 suspects in Attock on Tuesday night. The arrested men were placed on the fourth schedule of Anti Terrorism Act by the government.

Police sources said that as many as 254 men having links with banned outfits had been placed on fourth schedule of the Anti Terrorism Act in Rawalpindi region.

Of them, 15 had been found missing from their homes since May 2014, the sources said. Four of the missing men had links with Al Qaeda, the sources said.

Published in Dawn, March 30th, 2016

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