Information About Incident 64960-131396-333176 in Toba Tek Singh Pakistan

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The conspiracy was unearthed after a militant of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan's (TTP) Punjab Chapter, identified as Muhammad Usman, arrested on suspicion, revealed they had completed their reconnaissance and had chalked out a plan to abduct the Chief Minister.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: TTP
• Matched District: Toba Tek Singh
• Actgroup: abduct
• Actor: they
• Subject: the Chief Minister

Context

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Intelligence Agency on August 20 uncovered a plot to abduct Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif from his residence in the Jati Umra town of Raiwind in Lahore District, reports The Express Tribune. The conspiracy was unearthed after a militant of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan s (TTP) Punjab Chapter, identified as Muhammad Usman, arrested on suspicion, revealed they had completed their reconnaissance and had chalked out a plan to abduct the Chief Minister. During the course of investigation Usman revealed that Ubaid alias Qari Muhammad Imran Group and Aslam Yasin alias Osama Group, commanders of Punjabi Taliban, had planned to abduct Shahbaz Sharif to release their accomplices detained in high-profile cases of terrorism in different jails of the country, particularly in Punjab. Commander Ubaid and Aslam Yasin were based at Miranshah in the North Waziristan Agency of FATA, and had also links with the al Qaeda sources quoted Usman as telling investigators.

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