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Brain behind attempt on Musharraf caught

The alleged mastermind behind the plot to assassinate President Pervez Musharraf last year has been arrested by police here after a brief e...

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The alleged mastermind behind the plot to assassinate President Pervez Musharraf last year has been arrested by police here after a brief encounter.

CID police picked up Kamran alias Atif, an activist of the banned Harkat-ul-Mujahideen-Al-Alami, from a house in Karachi8217;s buffer zone following a tip-off. According to The NewsA woman who was passing by was killed in the crossfire. Eight hand-grenades, five rockets RPG-7 with five initiators, a Kalashnikov rifle with three magazines, hundreds of rounds of live bullets of various calibres and five bombs, including four telephone bombs and a video-cassette bomb besides jehadi literature was seized from the house. The Sindh government had announced a cash prize of Pakistani Rs 3 million for the arrest of Kamran.

Meanwhile, former Pakistan PM Benazir Bhutto8217;s Pakistan People8217;s Party has formally requested the Commonwealth not to re-admit Pakistan to its fold. According to The News, the view within the PPP is that as long as the country is under the control of a military regime, it should not be admitted to the Commonwealth. Pakistan has been out of that Forum since October 1999, when Pervez Musharraf carried out a bloodless coup and assumed power. Quoting Makhdoom Amin Fahim, the PPP8217;s vice chairman, The News said that an appeal had been forwarded to Commonwealth Secretary General Don McKinnon to this effect.

8216;8216;We urge the Commonwealth that the matter of re-admitting Pakistan is kept on hold till the country is returned to genuine democracy and supremacy of Parliament restored,8217;8217; Fahim said.

 

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