Police raided a suspected militant hide-out in southern Pakistan yesterday and arrested three suspects over recent sectarian killings, one of whom was allegedly planning a suicide attack, a government minister said.Authorities also seized weapons and bomb making material in the raid on a home in Karachi, Rauf Sadiqui, provincial interior minister, told a news conference.
He said the men â all Pakistanis â were members of Lashkare Jhangvi, a Sunni Muslim militant group accused of killing hundreds of minority Shias across the country in recent years.
âThey are dangerous people, and one of them was planning a suicide attack,â he said, but gave no other details. It was not clear when and where the man planned to carry out the attack, or who was his target. The group is accused of attacks on Westerners in Karachi and elsewhere, and some of its members are believed to have ties to Osama bin Ladenâs Al Qaeda network.