LAHORE: Provincial Minister for Home Col.(R) Shuja Khanzada has directed the vice-chancellors of all universities of the province to ensure strict monitoring of hostels and point out those persons who are not students but staying at the hostels.

The minister said that four terrorists including Faisal Mubashar, Saqib Hussain and their leader Abdali were killed in the operation, while two terrorists were arrested from the spot, in injured condition.

Addressing the meeting, the home minister asked the university authorities to invite the guests only after getting security clearance from the department concerned and the VC should immediately contact the Anti-terrorisms Force on detecting any suspicious activity in the institution.

The minister said the terrorists belonged to Al-Qaida network in Pakistan.

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Officials said they were acting on a tip-off when they raided the militants’ hideout and had received intelligence that the group were planning an attack on the provincial headquarters of the Intelligence Bureau (IB), Pakistan’s civilian intelligence agency.

The officer said the terrorists had brought the arms packed in fruit containers from Waziristan.

He said that earlier, the leader for this area was Mahmood who was an American nationality holder and was killed in a drone attack.

Two more militants were injured in the raid and arrested, the minister added, saying they had all trained in Afghanistan in an Al-Qaeda camp for five months.

Khanzada said police seized three suicide bombing jackets, one rocket launcher, five Kalashnikov rifles, a large cache of bullets and maps of important buildings during the raid. A briefing was also given in the press conference while video statements of terrorists and the weapons recovered from the house were also shown to the journalists.