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“Plot to assassinate Zardari”

Asif Ali Zardari

Islamabad: Pakistani intelligence agencies have uncovered a plot to assassinate President Asif Ali Zardari and arrested several persons, TV news channel reported.

The agencies conducted raids over the past few weeks in Islamabad and Punjab and arrested 42 persons, the reports said.

The GEO News channel quoted its sources as saying that 42 people were arrested, while Express News Channel reported that eight were arrested.

The reports said the plotters planned to target Mr. Zardari while he visited the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, where his father Hakim Ali Zardari was being treated till his recent death.

There were also reports that the plotters planned to target Mr. Zardari at Nawab Shah in Sindh province.

However, there was no official word on the alleged assassination plot.

Security officials have said in the past that the President faced serious threat to his life from the Taliban and other militant groups. — PTI

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