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a suspected terrorist who was planning to carry out attacks in Quetta on the occasion of Defence Day.
The suspected terrorist was arrested from Quetta in an intelligence-based operation, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement.
The statement issued from the army's General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi said that security forces recovered a remote-controlled improvised bomb (IED) from the suspect's possession. Moreover, some six kilogrammes of explosives and nuts and bolts were also recovered from the arrested man.
The ISPR said security personnel defused another IED that had already been planted at the site from where the man was arrested. It added that during the preliminary probe, the suspected terrorist, whose name has not been revealed, had confessed to having links with India's premier intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW).
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During questioning, the man also confessed to planting IEDs in Quetta on two occasions in the past, incidents in which several people were killed.