Pakistan foils would-be suicide attack on parliament, mosque
Saturday, 27 November 2010
ISLAMABAD, Nov 26, 2010 (AFP): Pakistani security forces Friday arrested two would-be suicide attackers in the capital Islamabad, which Interior Minister Rehman Malik said thwarted attacks on parliament and a mosque.
"We have foiled a plot to attack parliament and surrounding buildings, and a mosque and arrested two militants," Malik told state television.
The minister said one of the men came from the northwestern town of Bannu and intended to carry out a suicide attack on a mosque in the upmarket F8/1 residential neighbourhood, home to Westerners and wealthy Pakistanis.
"We have foiled a plot to attack parliament and surrounding buildings, and a mosque and arrested two militants," Malik told state television.
The minister said one of the men came from the northwestern town of Bannu and intended to carry out a suicide attack on a mosque in the upmarket F8/1 residential neighbourhood, home to Westerners and wealthy Pakistanis.