| ISLAMABAD: Pakistan demanded on Monday that Afghan authorities carry out an investigation to determine the identities of three Pakistani men arrested for allegedly plotting to assassinate the US ambassador. Foreign Ministry spokesman Jalil Abbas Jilani said Pakistan had only heard of the arrests through the media and it has not been "officially informed" by the Afghan government. "We are confident that (a) proper investigation would be conducted to ascertain the identity and motives of the alleged plotters," he said. Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed reacted angrily to any suggestion that there had been official sanction for the plot. "This is a baseless allegation," he said. |