The Rawalpindi police and the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) foiled a major terrorist activity as they prevent an attack on the Adial Jail, arresting three Afghan nationals, in a joint operation, the city police officer (CPO) said on Wednesday.

CPO Syed Khalid Hamdani revealed that the police and CTD conducted a joint operation and arrested three terrorists. He added that the arrested terrorists were from Afghanistan. “Sketches of Adiala Jail, hand grenades, and IEDs [improvised explosive devices] were recovered from the terrorists,” he said.

Hamdani said that the terrorists had been shifted to a safe place for interrogation, while the police and other law-enforcement agency personnel were conducting a search operation in and around the Adiala Jail.