 Police arrested a man suspected of was planning a suicide attack on Shias, officials said on Wednesday. Faisal Rafiq, 24, was arrested on Tuesday night at a telephone booth in Quetta, said Balochistan IG Chaudhry Mohammed Yaqoob. Rafiq was allegedly a member of the outlawed Sunni militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and "we suspect he was preparing to carry out a suicide attack against Shias" in Quetta, Yaqoob said. A senior police official said on condition of anonymity that Rafiq had strapped about half a kilogram of explosives to his body with a strip of cloth, but it was not primed to go off, along with a hand grenade and a pistol. |