PESHAWAR: In major achievement in Badaber air base attack probe, the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Thursday
arrested a woman for facilitating 14 attackers.
The woman, identified as Zarri Zadgai alias Perveen, was arrested from Tela Band area of Badaber near Peshawar. According to CTD, Parveen has confessed to providing food, shelter and bottles with chemicals to make improvised explosive devices (IEDs) to the terrorists.
In September 2015, banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terrorists attacked the air force base, killing at least 29 people, most of them were soldiers.
DG ISPR Lt. Gen Asim Salim Bajwa during a briefing here after the attack had said that fourteen terrorists had entered the residential compound at the base near Peshawar dressed in military uniforms. NNI