[Dawn] The Wah Saddar police on Tuesday claimed to have tossed in the calaboose two would-be jacket wallahs and recovered two suicide jackets along with arms and ammunition from their possession.Subdivisional Police Officer Raja Taifoor Akhter while speaking at a presser identified the tossed in the calaboose suspects as Usman Liaquat alias Tayyab and Saqib Shah alias Hamza. The two, who were nabbed near Brahama interchange, were stated to be members of a banned outfit. The official said four hand grenades, two Kalashnikovs and 200 bullets were also recovered from them.
During preliminary interrogation, the accused said they got military training in a camp run by Taliban in Wazoo and were planning to strike sensitive installations in the area.
He said the accused had been handed over to a joint investigation team in Rawalpindi for further interrogation after registration of a case against them.
It may be recalled that over 70 persons were killed and 120 others injured in two suicide kabooms in the city on August 21, 2008.