The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of Punjab has Sunday claimed to have shot down three alleged terrorists, planning attacks on sensitive installations and departments, amid a shootout in an intelligence-based operation.

The information-based coordinated raid was conducted by the Lahore CTD branch in the Ferozewala area where the three alleged terrorists rented a house, said the department’s spokesperson.

The three deceased terrorism suspects are Ehsan Ullah, Naimat Ullah and Abdul Salam and were shot dead during an operation conducted after a coordinated information and intelligence gathering, the department said.

More details on the operation and the associations of these alleged terrorists and their connections have yet to be divulged.

In a separate case yesterday from Sindh, a former leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Fatima Musafir alias Waderi, was gunned down in Karachi the last night.

Fatima served as the president of the PPP’s PS-123 Woman Circle.