A joint CTD and security forces raid in Walai Sagai eliminated Zahid Gul of the Gul Bahadur Group, named as the Kohat Police Lines bombing mastermind, police said.
Zahid Gul was killed on Friday in a joint CTD and security forces raid in Walai Sagai, Lakki Marwat.
Police said he was the mastermind of the recent Kohat Police Lines suicide bombing and linked to the Gul Bahadur Group.
He was also tied to a Rs6 million bank robbery in Kohat’s Bili Tang area and to plots against further Kohat targets.
Other operatives from the same network are already in law-enforcement custody, the official said.