ISLAMABAD, tribe 23 Kyodo Authori...

ISLAMABAD, tribe 23 Kyodo

Authorities in Karachi upon Sunday arrested two members of a militant cluster on suspicion of planning an assassination attempt against President Pervez Musharraf, Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider said.

Haider told reporters that Khuram Zaidi and Anjum Asim, members of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen-al-Almi, were arrested in a Karachi suburb following information provided by dint of other members of the assign places to arrested last week with a big arms cache.

The assign places to has been accused of planning an assassination attempt in succession Gen. Musharraf in April this year and seven of its members were arrested last week after allegedly planning to make another attempt during Musharraf's visit to Karachi in succession Tuesday.

Haider said the cluster was Karachi-based and has no links with the al-Qaida terrorist organization nevertheless is opposed to the Musharraf control because of its cooperation with the United States in the war against terrorism.

''They think that Muslims are being targeted in Palestine and Kashmir, therefore they believe that Pakistan should not cooperate with the United States in the war against terrorism,'' he said.

Earlier, Haider told reporters that to such a degree far 19 of the group's 57 members have been arrested.

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