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Parliament attack plot foiled in Pakistan

Says interior minister, 13 men detained for plotting attacks, troops to continue anti-Taliban drive during Ramadan

Ani, Afp, Indo-Asian News Service, Islamabad
Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that government forces had foiled a planned terrorist attack on parliament and buildings of the intelligence agency and other federal institutions last month.
"Pakistan's parliament building was one target of a planned attack." he said.
Giving details of the plan in an interview with CNN, he said three men with suicide vests had been arrested over the past four weeks.
He did not say when and where the suspects
had been nabbed, the Dawn reported.
Meanwhile, Pakistani police have arrested 13 men accused of plotting attacks across the country, with one cell planning to disrupt Ramadan and the other targeting economic hub Karachi, police said yesterday.
In Karachi on Sunday, police held seven members of banned al-Qaeda-linked*extremist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi on suspicion of planning suicide attacks in the southern port city and capital of Sindh province.
"We have arrested seven men and recovered three explosives-filled jackets and detonators."
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senior Karachi police official Saud Mirza told AFP, adding that a large quantity of explo slves had also been seized in the Sunday raid.
"They were planning to hit some major targets including police establishments and Shia mosques in the city," he added. "The material we have recovered from them was enough to start a small war in a part of the city."
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi is regarded as the fiercest of Pakistan's Sunni Muslim extremist outfits and is known to have mounted numerous attacks on the minority Shia Muslim community and other targets since it was formed in 1996.
Pakistani authorities blame the group for the devastating attack last September on Islamabad's five-star Marriott hotel, which left 60 people dead, and say the group has strong links to the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
Malik called media reports regarding the presence of 50 suicide bombers in Islamabad "baseless" and has ordered an inquiry into the matter.
Malik ordered all provincial governments and the Islamabad Capital Territory Police to provide foolproof security to the people.
In a separate interview with
BBC, the interior minister said it could be part of a policy not to confinn 100 percent the death of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistani leader Baitullah Mehsud.
Malik was of the view that candidates for the new Taliban chief were 'petty characters' who were fighting against each other and al-Qaeda was taking decisions in the matter.
The Interior Minister said the government's anti-Taliban operations would continue during Ramazan.
"We are not interested in a ceasefire," Malik said. "They haven't kept their commitment in the past. We will continue targeted actions against theTaliban."
Thelaliban had announced that it will stop fighting during Ramadan, which began Saturday and is traditionally considered a time of peace.
Malik said the police have prevented at least three possible attacks on government buildings by militants. The security forces arrested three suicide bombers who planned to attack the parliament and two other buildings, the report cited Malik as saying in a CNN interview.
His remarks came after the Taliban in North Waziristan had announced that they would observe a ceasefire during the month.