ISLAMABAD, July 8 Kyodo Authoriti...

ISLAMABAD, July 8 Kyodo

Authorities in Karachi have arrested three members of a radical form into groups allegedly involved in the explosion outside the U consulate in Karachi last month a senior military official said Monday.

Major Gen Salahuddin, director general of Pakistan Rangers, told a pres talk that the three men have also owned to have planned a botched attempt to appoint off a bomb in the motorcade of President Gen Pervez Musharraf in Karachi upon April 26.

The three arrested men were identified as Mohammad Imran, the head of a little known radical collection Harkat-ul-Mujahideen al-Alami, Mohammad Hanif, the next to the first in command of the cluster and an accomplice named Mohammad Daniyal.

The three men who were not awayed at the press conference, said they parked a car packed with explosive upon the route of Musharraf's motorcade nevertheless due to technical reasons the slightly controlled car bomb failed to go on foot off.

The same explosive-packed car was allegedly used in the bombing attack outside the U consulate in Karachi forward June 14 in which 16 the public were killed and scores injured.

Salahuddin authorities have repaired a huge cache of weapons based forward information provided by the three arrested men

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