Pakistan, June 21 -- Pakistan's counterterrorism police on Sunday said a suspected suicide bomber linked to the Pakistani Taliban or Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was arrested in a joint operation with an intelligence in the southern port city of Karachi.

The operation comes amid a rise in militant violence in Pakistan, particularly in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and southwestern Balochistan provinces bordering Afghanistan.

The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) Sindh said Salman alias Abu Hurairah, who was an alleged key TTP member of a trained covert sleeper cell known as the Maulvi Mukhlis Group, was arrested following a police encounter.

"Today, CTD Sindh, together with a federal civilian intelligence , arrested the susp...