| Suspected terrorists arrested from Eesa Khel in December said during interrogation that they were planning to hit former federal minister Sumaira Malik, Geo News TV channel quoted senior police officials as saying. Sargodha range DIG Hamid Mukhtar Gondal and Mianwali DPO Malik Abdul Aziz said in a press conference that the held men wanted to target Sumaira Malik because they believed she had mistranslated verses from the Holy Quran in a television programme. The three suspects belonged to ‘Faqeera’ and ‘Verpa’ groups, the channel quoted the officials as saying, that were subsidiary organisations of Baitullah Mehsud. They said that a Chakwal resident, Ghulam Rabbani, supervised terrorist activities in Punjab. |