A plot to assassinate the Balochistan Governor has been foiled by Pakistani police after they arrested two men near the Pak-Afghan border, officials said.
Quetta's Deputy Inspector General, Abdul Razzaq Cheema told a media yesterday that two men have been arrested who were plotting to kill the provincial governor Muhammad Khan Achakzai during a planned visit to his village.
"Hamid Bashir from Punjab and Munawar Ahmed from Quetta have confessed to the plan. They were arrested during a raid in the Gulistan area near the border with Afghanistan," he said.
They were planning to carry out a suicide bomb attack on the Governor.
He said a large cache of weapons and explosives, including two suicide vests and land mines, were found in a compound during the raid carried out after receiving a tip- off.
Balochistan's Home Minister, Mir Sarfaraz Bugti said that investigations revealed that the Qari Taliban group which now operates out of Afghanistan was behind the plan to carry out the attack on the governor.
He said the same group was behind the assassination of late Punjab Home Minister Shuja Khanzada in 2015.
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