Police on Tuesday arrested Qari Saeed, chief of the banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan’s Orakzai chapter in Nowshera.
According to a private TV channel, Qari Saeed was arrested with an accomplice during a raid conducted by the police in the Banda Nabi village in Nowshera’s Pabbi Tehsil.
Police sources said they suspected Qari Saeed was in town to collaborate a sabotage attempt on a gathering being organised to observe the second death anniversary of Mian Rashid Hussain, son of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain.
Rashid Hussain was gunned down in July 2010 in his ancestral town of Pabbi, Nowshera district.
