MULTAN: Police said on Friday that they had arrested six operatives of a banned Sunni extremist group who were allegedly planning to carry out a suicide attack on a Shia mosque. Police arrested the suspects in an early morning raid on their hideout in the rural town of Rahim Yar Khan in central Punjab, the town’s police chief Ahsan Mahboob told AFP. He confirmed that explosives and three weapons belts had also been seized during the raid. “They were planning to target a Shia place of worship in Rahim Yar Khan with a suicide attack when police captured them,” he said, adding that the would-be bomber was among the six suspects.“They all belong to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi”, a group outlawed in 2001 and blamed for numerous attacks against the country’s Shia minority, the police chief said. Mahboob said that the group had executed a suicide attack against a Karachi-based Shia mosque last year. Police have identified one of the six men arrested as Ghulam Nazik, who was involved in last year’s suicide attack on a Shia mosque at Nipa Chaurangi, Karachi.
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