Attack on Pakistan Parliament foiled: Police
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Islamabad, May 13, IRNA
Pakistan-Arrest
Pakistani police have arrested two members of a banned extremist group suspected of masterminding suicide attacks including one on the Parliament, a senior police official said on Thursday.
Sikandar Hayat, a district police officer, told a news conference in the city Multan that police have recovered five hand grenades from them.
He said the suspects Amir Alias Shehzad and Khwaja Ibrahim have disclosed during interrogation that they were part of a suicide squad involved in attacks on the Shiites' mosques.
The suspects belong to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a sectarian group whose members were blamed for carrying out two murder attempts on President Pervez Musharraf in December 2003.
Hayat said the accused also tried to kill a central leader of Mutahida Majlis-e Amal Allama, Sajid Ali Naqvi, when he was addressing a public meeting in Multan in last October.
He said the attacks plan was frustrated due to high security.
"The suicide bombers had planned a suicide attack to sneak into the National Assembly building and to make the members of the house hostage for the release of their colleagues," Hayat added.
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::IRNA No.010 13/05/2005 10:53 --End
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