Police said they arrested four Taliban militants on Thursday who were planning "terror attacks" in Karachi and recovered suicide vests and explosives. Police did not make any link between the foiled attacks and the killing on May 2 of Osama bin Laden.
The four members of main militant umbrella group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), were arrested during a police raid in the Pirabad area of the southern port city, senior police official Omar Shahid told a press conference. "The police are interrogating the four men, Babar Iqbal Babli, Maaz Irfan, Habibur Rehman and Habib Ullah, whom Taliban had trained in North Waziristan tribal region," Shahid said.
"They have told us that Taliban commander Badar Mansoor had sent them to Karachi to launch terror attacks on security forces and government buildings," Shahid said. "They would extort money from business community and had plans to attack police offices, security agencies and sensitive government establishments. "We are interrogating the suspects for some previous terror attacks including blasts in the city." Three suicide jackets, rifles, pistols and explosives were recovered in the raid, Shahid added.