Forces thwart major attempt to play havoc on the eve of Christmas.

Peshawar -- Security forces Friday claimed to have averted major attempt to play havoc in Peshawar on the eve of Christmas. The forces arrested four terrorists, including the key commander of a banned outfit Lashkar-e-Islam besides seizing suicide jackets and Improvised explosives Devices from their possession. 'The miscreants were planning a major terror attack in Peshawar on December 25, which is Christmas Day and Quaid-i-Azam Day,' security officials said. Later, eight facilitators of the miscreants were also netted from the outskirts of the provincial metropolis

Reports said the security forces and police in a joint action raided a house in Sipah area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Khyber district Thursday late night and arrested the four terrorists, one of whom was identified as Zakir Afridi, a commander of Lashkar-e-Islam.

Three suicide jackets and six Improvised Explosive Devices were also seized from the possession of the...