A total of eight out of 15 terrorists have been arrested from Islamabad and other areas of Punjab who were planning to target the President at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), where Hakim Ali Zardari was admitted.
The sources said that the President visited PIMS many times when Hakim was admitted there. Many terrorists pretending to be as labourers kept monitoring the movement of the President and providing information to their mastermind at Bhara Kahu, Islamabad. The sources said that later the security agencies arrested the mastermind from Bhara Kahu. During interrogation he revealed that 15 terrorist were given the task to attack the President at PIMS.
According to the TV channel, the security forces first got information about the plan from some terrorists to kill the President on May 21 by intercepting a call and arrested four of them from Islamabad and another four from different areas of Punjab on Saturday.