TTP Threat | Police Helped Escape TTP Militants, Still at Large

Police authorities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) are trying to hush up the escape of 11 ‘hardcore terrorists’ from the Police Lines in Mardan two months ago.

Sources identified the escaped Tehreek-e-Taliban terrorists as Afghan national Muhammad Gul, aka Ahmad, Gul Muhammad, aka Umer Bajawri, Nihar Ali, aka Yasir, Akhtar Iqbal, aka Araf Khan, Majid Ali, aka Ishaq, Muhammad Ali, aka Yasin, Abdullah, aka Hamza, Muhammad Israil, aka Muhammada, Akhtar, aka Khan Jee, Arshad, aka Pir Saib and Muhammad Sulman, aka Ahmad.

Sources said a constable of Mardan police had helped the terrorists escape. Surprisingly, the ‘hardcore terrorists’ were kept in a barrack in the Police Lines. “Two constables were standing guard on them. The terrorists killed one constable, while the other helped them escape,” a senior police official told a local newspaper “The Express Tribune”.

A subsequent inquiry was put on the backburner, while senior police officials, when approached, refused to comment. According to intelligence agencies, these terrorists have fled to Afghanistan where they are planning attacks in K-P, especially in Mardan.

Sources said these terrorists belonged to the Swat and Mohmand Agency chapters of the TTP. They were involved in bomb blasts and attacks on law enforcement agencies. Officials said that neither any of the terrorists nor the police constable who helped them flee has been arrested.