[Dawn] Security forces on Saturday arrested five militants belonging to Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan during a search operation in Darra Adam Khel, officials told DawnNews.The five suspects, whose names are being kept secret, were picked up from the Tor Chappar area infested with militants and taken to unknown place for interrogation by the security forces.
Meanwhile, three mortars fired by the militants from the mountains of Darra Adam Khel exploded in the cantonment area without causing any kind of loss.
The bomb disposal squad rushed to the cantonment that had come under attack by the militants and found a rocket which had exploded in an open ground close to the Catholic Church on Mall Road. Despite an intense search carried out by the squad, they could not locate the other two rockets.
Experts said that the mortars had been fired from the Bazid Khel side of Darra Adam Khel adjacent to the mountains of Sheikhan village of Kohat.
Security was put on the high alert after the fresh attacks and military forces busy with the clean-up operation in Darra Adam Khel have been asked to nab terrorists involved in such attacks from the mountains as well.
Furthermore, an important militant commander Sabirullah was arrested from the Kaka Sahib area in District Nowshera on Saturday, police sources said.
"Three bombs and more than 15 kg of explosives, fuses and detonators also recovered," they added.