Personnel of the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of the Punjab Police arrested five suspected terrorists during a raid on a hideout near Lahore’s Bhatta Chowk locality on Monday. 

According to the CTD, the suspects belong to the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). Those arrested were identified as Nasifullah, Ziaur Rehman, Ishtiaq, Abdur Rehman and Malik Kashif. The CTD team also seized hate literature and receipts of funds collected from the public and got a case registered against the suspects.