<p>Acting on a tip-off, police nabbed Adnan Khosa, also known as Arshad or Sajjad, within the jurisdiction of Raitra police station, Dera Ghazi Khan district police chief Tassaduq Hiyat said.<br />Khosa, whose codename was "Chotu", had been included in the police's "Red Book", a list of high-value militants, Hiyat said.<br /><br />The arrested terrorist is a resident of Azmat Town and an operative of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi's Amjad Farooqi faction, which has committed several robberies to finance its terrorist activities.<br /><br />Khosa's father, Qari Arshad, said his son had been studying at the Farooq-e-Azam madrassa in Shah Saddar Din, from where he went missing with a fellow student.<br /><br />Arshad said soon after the attack on the Sri Lankan team in Lahore, law enforcement agencies had picked up Khosa and his elder brother but they were later released.<br /><br />He said Khosa later went to Dubai.<br /><br />Arshad claimed Khosa had had no contact with his family for the past few years.<br />In a separate development, police arrested two suspects in connection with an attack on a Shia procession in Lahore.<br /><br />Qari Mustafa and Commander Ameen were picked up from a neighbourhood in Lahore for their alleged support to suicide bombers.<br /><br />Three suicide bombers had targeted the Shia procession on September 2 last year, killing at least 35 people and wounding 200.<br /><br />Explosives, suicide jackets and sophisticated weapons were recovered from the two arrested men, officials said.</p>
<p>Acting on a tip-off, police nabbed Adnan Khosa, also known as Arshad or Sajjad, within the jurisdiction of Raitra police station, Dera Ghazi Khan district police chief Tassaduq Hiyat said.<br />Khosa, whose codename was "Chotu", had been included in the police's "Red Book", a list of high-value militants, Hiyat said.<br /><br />The arrested terrorist is a resident of Azmat Town and an operative of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi's Amjad Farooqi faction, which has committed several robberies to finance its terrorist activities.<br /><br />Khosa's father, Qari Arshad, said his son had been studying at the Farooq-e-Azam madrassa in Shah Saddar Din, from where he went missing with a fellow student.<br /><br />Arshad said soon after the attack on the Sri Lankan team in Lahore, law enforcement agencies had picked up Khosa and his elder brother but they were later released.<br /><br />He said Khosa later went to Dubai.<br /><br />Arshad claimed Khosa had had no contact with his family for the past few years.<br />In a separate development, police arrested two suspects in connection with an attack on a Shia procession in Lahore.<br /><br />Qari Mustafa and Commander Ameen were picked up from a neighbourhood in Lahore for their alleged support to suicide bombers.<br /><br />Three suicide bombers had targeted the Shia procession on September 2 last year, killing at least 35 people and wounding 200.<br /><br />Explosives, suicide jackets and sophisticated weapons were recovered from the two arrested men, officials said.</p>