The British Police has arrested four men of Pakistani origin under the Terrorism Act as part of a major ongoing investigation on Tuesday.
Officers from the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit detained the men at their homes in the Sparkhill area of Birmingham city on suspicion of travelling to Pakistan to undertake terrorist training and of raising funds for terrorist purposes.
The chairman crime stoppers of West Midlands police, Mazhar Iqbal told Pakistan Today that all four arrested were born in Britain and have ancestors in Azad Jammu and Kashmir. One of them is an Englishman and new Muslim. A police spokesman said the suspects, aged between 19 and 24, were not charged yet.
“We cannot disclose their names unless they are charged,” Iqbal said. They have been arrested as part of Operation Pitsford, a large-scale inquiry which has already seen eight other people charged with a variety of offences.
