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Over 13,000 held in Pakistan anti-terror crackdown
February 07, 2015
Police in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province have arrested over 13,000 suspects in anti-terror crackdowns after the federal government formed the National Action Plan to quell militancy following the Peshawar school massacre. In congruence with the action plan, the police arrested 13,144 suspects across the province and seized huge quantity of arms and ammunitions in the past one month, officials said. 
Pakistan formed the NAP after the Peshawar school attack on December 16 that killed 150 people, mostly children, in consultation with political parties and the military.
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