Battagram: A key militant commander and right hand of fugitive extremist cleric Maulvi Fazlullah, has been arrested along with an aide, District Police Officer (DPO) Ghulam Hussain said on Monday.
He told media that Qari Basit and his aide Ihazul Haq was arrested Kocgage area of Battagram,
The DPO said a huge cache of arms and ammunition was also recovered from their custody which included an anti-aircraft gun, 7 Kalashnikov, 115 kg explosive material, 22 hand-grenades, 22 suicide jackets and 4 pressure-cooker bomb.
He told that Qari Basit was Fazlullah’s commander for Battagram, Mansehra and adjacent areas and planned attack on Amir Muqman, a senior politician, now in the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz.
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