KARACHI: Pakistani intelligence agents have arrested six suspects for a suicide car bombing outside the US consulate in March in Karachi, which killed an American diplomat and four other people, officials said. "I can confirm that six people have been arrested in connection with the US consulate suicide bombing," said a senior security official. Officials said that investigators had also identified the suicide bomber as Mohammed Tahir. "Tahir used to work with Pakistani militant outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed and he was assigned the task by a person directly linked with Al Qaeda," he added. Tahir rammed his car laden with explosives into a diplomatic vehicle outside the consulate on March 2. The attack came less than two days before US President George W Bush was to visit Pakistan.
President Gen Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz have congratulated police and intelligence agencies for the arrests, said the Interior Ministry in a statement. "The president said that the credit for this excellent work went to the combined efforts of law enforcement and intelligence agencies," according to the statement.