Overview
- Gilgit-Baltistan’s Counter-Terrorism Department is now operational with a dedicated police station in Gilgit to handle terrorism cases across the region.
- SSP Tanveerul Hassan has been appointed to lead the unit, which is organized into investigation, intelligence, operations, and administration wings.
- All existing counterterrorism FIRs have been transferred to the new station, which has also registered the Tangir valley Frontier Works Organisation vehicle attack case.
- The unit starts with 250 personnel, with recruitment for roughly 600 additional posts planned this year and basic training to be sourced from other provinces.
- Punjab CTD reports a multi-city intelligence operation that arrested 26 suspects, including an Al-Qaeda operative and four members of Fitna Al-Khawarij, with seizures of explosive material, three EIDs, detonators, and related items; officials also cite 286 intelligence operations and 4,662 combing operations over a month yielding 538 arrests and 160,009 questioned.