Punjab Minister for Law and Cooperatives Raja Basharat has paid homage to the Punjab Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) for arresting high profile terrorists during recent actions and said that successful operations against terrorists were a testament to the professionalism of the department.

In a felicitation statement on Sunday, he that the  Counter Terrorism Department under the leadership of IG Police Punjab Inam Ghani and Additional IG CTD Wasim Ahmed was playing a vital role in making the province peaceful.

Raja Basharat said that officers and youths of CTD along with Pakistan Army and Punjab Police had sacrificed their precious lives in the war against terrorism.

Encouraging the officers and youth fighting against terrorists, the provincial minister said that the Punjab government would extend all possible cooperation to the CTD department and its problems would be resolved on priority basis.

He expressed the hope that the brave youth of CTD would continue to pursue the terrorists with the same determination and zeal until the motherland was cleansed of the last terrorist.