Pakistani police have arrested two people, suspected to be “handlers” of the attackers who assassinated former Premier Benazir Bhutto in the garrison city of Rawalpindi in December last year. The two men, identified only as Hasnain and Rafaqat, were arrested by a special investigating team for alleged involvement in the suicide attack on Bhutto at Rawalpindi’s Liaquat Bagh on December 27, Geo News channel reported on Thursday.

They were arrested in Rawalpindi and were being interrogated. The channel quoted sources as claiming that the men accompanied two others, Bilal and Ikram, who allegedly carried out the attack on Bhutto.

Hasnain and Rafaqat were described by the sources as the alleged “handlers” of the two attackers.

American Qaeda militant killed

ISLAMABAD: CLOSE on the heels of the killing of top Al Qaeda leader Abu Laith al-Libi in Pakistan’s North Waziristan region, an American Al Qaeda militant has been killed in the same region, media reports said.

Adam Gadahn, also known as Azzam al-Amriki, was reportedly killed in an attack by a US Predator drone on a house near Mir Ali, one of the main towns of North Waziristan, a few days ago, The News reported on Thursday.

Gadahn, a 32-year-old American from southern California, has been accused by the US of praising the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks and attending Al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan’s tribal areas.

Three killed in blast

Islamabad: Three persons, including two terrorists, were killed and 10 others injured in a bomb blast near a bus station in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province on Thursday.The blast occured in Dera Murad Jamali town, located about 300 km from the provincial capital of Quetta. The two terrorists were apparently planting a bomb in a shop when it went off prematurely.