Pakistan's Law enforcement and intelligence agencies have reportedly questioned over a million people under the National Action Plan (NAP) to counter terror which was devised last year in December after the Peshawar school carnage.
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According to the Express Tribune, experts somehow believe that arresting or questioning people is not the solution as there is an absence of any institutional reforms.
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Since intelligence-based raids began on December 28, 2014, law enforcement agencies have questioned 1,073,699 people during 73,058 operations across the country.
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The agencies arrested 85,213 suspects during this period with the highest (40,477) arrested in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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Around 25,215 people were arrested in Sindh, 8,639 in Balochistan, 5,371 in Punjab; 2,329 in Islamabad and 755 suspects were arrested in tribal areas.
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