QUETTA: Security forces on Monday arrested a university lecturer in Quetta over terror links with Indian-backed proxies in the province.
Law enforcement agencies arrested the terrorist facilitator based on information from a captured suicide bomber.
According to security sources, a suicide bomber was arrested on August 11. His information led to the arrest of Dr. Usman Qazi, a lecturer at a university in Balochistan. He was found linked to a banned outfit.
The lecturer confessed to helping in the 2024 railway station attack and to training dozens of terrorists. Sources said he was planning a major terror strike on August 14. The timely operation by security forces foiled the plan and averted large-scale destruction.
Earlier, DG ISPR Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry had stated that intelligence-based operations are under way in Balochistan. He said the aim is to target terrorists and their facilitators, not to harm innocent civilians.
He explained that vacating areas does not solve the problem. Success comes only with public support. Any citizen sheltering terrorists or storing explosives in homes will face consequences.
The DG ISPR stressed that operations succeed when locals identify terrorists. He warned that if forces clear an area without community cooperation, terrorists will return.
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He added that terrorism cannot be blamed on entire villages. People of Balochistan themselves are now pointing out terrorists and their facilitators. The public, he said, is tired of violence and wants peace.
