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India-Pakistan
Eight arrested for plotting to kill president
2011-06-06
[Dawn] The brute squad has picked up eight alleged forces of Evil for their involvement in a plot to assassinate President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari
... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ...
during his scheduled visit to Pakistain Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims), sources told on Saturday.

The sources said that the arrest was made after security agency intercepted a call on May 15 in which two forces of Evil were planning to carry out suicide kaboom during the scheduled visit of President Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari
... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in ...
to Pims to enquire after his ailing father.

The security agency traced the phone call and succeeded in locating one of the group members, who was incarcerated from the area of Margalla cop shoppe about three week ago.

The alleged terrorist was handed over to the security agency which obtained from him the whereabouts of his other group members scattered in Islamabad and its adjacent areas.

The liquidation plan and the arrest was also shared with the president, the sources said.

Later, his other group members were also incarcerated from Islamabad and its adjacent areas.

During interrogation they disclosed their association with a banned sectarian outfit and admitted that they had planned to assassinate the president.

They said the group had also planned to kill the president in Nawab Shah during his father`s funeral prayers or burial, the sources said. In the light of the information, intelligence was mounted at Nawab Shah which led to the arrest of four other alleged forces of Evil involved in the plot, the sources said.

The sources said the burial of the president`s father was all set to take place on the evening of May 25, but due to security risk the ceremony was delayed till next morning and during the period the four alleged terrorist were incarcerated.

The security agency has also picked up over two dozens other people for their alleged links with the group, the sources said.

The names of the alleged forces of Evil were being kept secret.
Posted by:Fred

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