On a tip off provided by an intelligence agency, the Counter-Terrorism Department of Punjab Police raided a house in densely populated Harbanspura area and arrested Jamaat-ul- Ahrar's Lahore chapter activists - Amjad Khan and Daood Khan.
According to a spokesperson of CTD, both suspects had planned to target a security check post in Lahore.
Some hand grenades, small-scale arms and guns have been recovered from the suspects.
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar spokespersonAsad Mansoor yesterday surrendered along with two associates in Dera Ismail Khan.
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Pakistan had banned the organisation in 2016.
The group has been involved in more than 100 terrorist attacks on Pakistani soil.
JuA chief Omar Khalid Khorasani was reportedly killed in a drone attack in Afghanistan in October last year.
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