Plot to assassinate President Asif Ali Zardari uncovered

Intelligence officials arrest eight people involved in a plot to assassinate the president after tapping their phones.


Express June 04, 2011

ISLAMABAD: Intelligence officials have arrested eight men believed to have been involved in a plot to assassinate the President.

According to intelligence sources, intelligence officials had been conducting raids for the past three weeks and had managed to arrest four people from Islamabad and four people from Punjab, who had been plotting to kill President Asif Ali Zardari.

Sources said that intelligence officials had been monitoring the trail of the plotters by tapping their mobile phone lines.

Express 24/7 correspondent Syed Ali in Islamabad said that many of the President’s meetings during the funeral services of Hakim Ali Zardari had been cancelled due to security reasons.

The suspects have been moved to an undisclosed location.

COMMENTS (43)

Taimur | 12 years ago | Reply oh damn...
Phajja | 12 years ago | Reply @saleem: Neither they are stupid nor fanatics. They are the paid killers trained by CIA and Those Rogue Indian Consulates along the Pakistan Afghan border whose only job is to disturb law & order in Pakistan. This is the reaction or let's say regret and humiliation they had to suffer by the hands of Afghans.After all they have lost in Afghanistan. India's future in Afghanistan is not going to be any different. History doesn't lie.
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