Pakistan Arrests Terrorist Planning Attack on JUI-F (retaliation for Lal Masjid)
Police arrest bomber plotting to kill Fazl
* 16-year-old arrested from DI Khan
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PESHAWAR: Police arrested a teenager who had confessed to plotting a suicide attack to kill Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, security officials told Reuters on Sunday.
The 16-year-old boy was arrested late on Saturday in Dera Ismail Khan where the JUI-F chief lives.
“The boy was caught … with a vest and explosives,” an intelligence official said anonymously. He said the would-be attacker had admitted that Fazl was his target.
The JUI-F chief is believed to have angered militants by opposing clerics who governed a radical mosque in Islamabad, before commandos stormed it in July. More than 100 people were killed, including many gunmen.