Islamabad: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) has arrested 798 terrorists in last two years as part of the efforts aiming at rooting out terrorism from the province. Out of them ten were later executed and 45 awarded sentences by the courts.
According to a report compiled by KP’s CTD to show the record of implementation of National Action Plan (NAP) in last two years, some 17972 foreigners who were illegally living in KP province were identified and deported to their respective countries while 2178 people were arrested on the charges of preparing fake computerised national identity cards (CNICs).
On December 24, 2014 - a week after terrorists killed 144 students and staff members at the Army Public School in Peshawar, Prime Minister announced NAP, a comprehensive strategy to defeat what many had come to believe was an existential threat.
