Peshawar: The Department of Terrorism (CTD) of the Police said on Wednesday the Daesh Khorasan network in Peshawar and has achieved great operational successes in several cases, including the murder of the religious scholar Munir Shakir.
Mufti Munir Shakir, founder of the forbidden Lashkar-i-Islam, was killed in an explosion outside his seminar in the Urmar area on the outskirts of the provincial capital on March 15 of this year.
They said the department identified the gang involved in this atrocious act while the efforts were underway to stop the culprits in the near future.
CTD officials, while informing the media, said it started a group of responsible militants of no less than 18 terrorist incidents in the established areas of the provincial capital, and added that these attacks include the martyrdom of the deputy superintendent of the Sardar Hussain Khan police and another 14 police officers of several ranges.
Officials reveal terrorists who use digital currency for extortion; Propose the seminar registration must be subject to CTD’s consent
They said that after the interrogation of arrested terrorists involved in several terrorist activities, CTD recovered a substantial cache of weapons, ammunition and explosive material, including IED, and added that the timely action also led to obtaining at least six sensitive facilities that had already been subjected to recognition by militants by militants and were in the final finals of planning an attack.
“CTD has identified the gang responsible for the objective murder of religious academics, allowing monitoring operations focused to stop the culprits,” they said.
In addition, CTD officials, who did not want to be appointed, claimed to have started the Daesh Khorasan network directly responsible for suicidal attack in the city of Peshawar on May 11, 2025, about four kilometers from a Jui-F meeting that is addressed to Mauula Fazlur Rehman in Mufti Mehmood Markaz in Road Road Road, in Outskirts of the provincial capital.
While informing journalists, CTD revealed that, apart from monetary notes and bank transactions, terrorist organizations also received extortion money through the digital currency.
CTD officials told journalists here that, apart from Afghanistan, people also received calls to extortion Saudi mobile numbers.
“They [militants] Now look for extortion money in digital currency: Bitcoin, ”said a senior CTD official, added that terrorist organizations generated finance not only extortion but also drug obstacles.
In addition, CTD officials said the terrorists were involved in online propaganda on several social networks and that the department had established contact directly with the organizations that the applications possessed, and added that the department had proposed to the Government to establish police stations against cyber terrorism.
“CTD also wants empowerment under the prevention of the Law of Electronic Crimes,” they said, adding that the violent extremism policy was in the final stage. CTD officials said that religious seminars and registration should be subject to the approval of the CTD, and added that they had proposed to empower the attached commissioners to register religious seminars under the Law of Registry of Companies of 1860.
They also said they had faced problems while arrested the people accused in the fused districts, since it took years to arrest a person, and added that the department wanted powers under a mixture of regulations of border crimes 1901 and the 2017 Police Law.
“We have 44 Special Weapons and Tactical Teams (SWAT) for each district. All these equipment are equipped with modern devices,” they said, and added that the department’s capabilities development was underway with a laboratory of analysis and analysis of explosives.
They said that the Department of Prosecutor had developed enough experience and the bail rejection ratio, which was 6 percent in 2022, had risen to 34 % in 2025, adding that 25PC was the condemnation rate in 2025 compared to 23PC in 2022.
They informed journalists that the proportion of cases that logically completed was 13 percent in 2022, which had risen to 34 % in 2025, and added that 11 scientists were recruited for the Forensic Laboratory with the latest technology that will be adopted in the near future.
Posted in Dawn, August 14, 2025
