The Punjab Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) in Pakistan said on Saturday it had arrested 33 suspected terrorists in 475 intelligence-based operations (IBOs) conducted across the province in the past month, APA reports citing Dawn.
The counterterrorism efforts come amid heightened security concerns across the country.
Pakistan experienced an increase in terrorist attacks as a total of 59 terrorist attacks occurred countrywide in August compared to 38 attacks in the previous month, according to a digital database maintained by the Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS), an Islamabad-based think-tank.
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