Four militants planning major terror attack on Dec 25 arrested in Peshawar.

PESHAWAR -- Security forces have arrested four terrorists, including the commander of a banned outfit, who were reportedly planning a major terror attack in Peshawar on December 25, which is Christmas Day and Quaid-i-Azam Day.

The arrests were made from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Khyber district.

In a raid at a house in Sipah Thursday night, security forces and police arrested the four terrorists, one of whom was identified as Zakir Afridi, a commander of Lashkar-e-Islam.

Lashkar-e-Islam is a banned militant organisation active in and around Peshawar's Khyber. It was founded in 2004 by Mufti Munir Shakir.

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