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| Afghanistan/South Asia |
| Pakistani coppers foil bus boom |
| 2005-09-10 |
| Pakistani Police Friday foiled a bid to detonate a high-intensity bomb near main bus terminal in eastern Punjab province and arrested three alleged Al-Qaeda linked militants, said police on Friday. Rana Naukhel, Asif Saeed, and Amir Iqbal, residents of eastern Punjab province and all in their late 30s, were arrested today morning while planting bombs at the main Bus Station in Lahore city, 370 kilometers from Islamabad, said city police chief at a press conference. He said police also seized huge cache of ammunition including 30 electric detonators, several hand-grenades, bomb-making explosive and pistols, adding, they also recovered Jihadi literature, compact disks, cassettes, fake identity cards, and a booklet about bomb making methods. Without mentioning the name, he said that they are militants of some outlawed group, having links with Al-Qaeda, wanted in different terrorism case. However, a police source told KUNA that they are active members of Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LJ), an outlawed militant group who had strong ties with Al-Qaeda terror network. The arrest of three more militants follows the arrest of a militant, Mufti Mohammed Sabir, wanted in a car-bomb explosion that killed 15 people including 11 French engineers on May 8, 2002, near Sheraton Hotels in Southern Karachi port city. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |