17 suspects held over Pakistan blast

Plain-clothed policemen check the rubble of the damaged mosque following the blast Wednesday. Pic/AFP

Pakistan's security agencies arrested 17 suspects in connection with the suicide blast in a high-security zone mosque in Peshawar that killed 101 people, including 97 policemen, as Army chief Gen Asim Munir vowed zero tolerance for terror groups and directed his generals to eliminate the threat of militancy.

The arrests have been made from close vicinity of the Police Lines area where the mosque is located and the suspects were shifted to interrogation cell for investigation, sources said.

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Pakistan's top generals have vowed that perpetrators of the Peshawar terrorist attack will be brought to exemplary justice. General Munir, who presided over the 255th Corps Commanders' Conference held at general headquarters in Rawalpindi on Tuesday, said that the military was determined to eliminate the threat of militancy from the country.

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