Suspects connected to Faisal Shahzad arrested with map of Presidency, PM House

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Terror suspects arrested for ties to Faisal Shahzad​

ISLAMABAD: Three people were arrested by security officials for suspected links to US terrorist Faisal Shahzad.

According to initial reports, the three suspects, Jameel Akhtar, Shahid and Shoaib were picked up in Islamabad on Tuesday. All three allegedly belong to various terrorist outfits. Maps of the Prime Minister’s house and the Presidency were also recovered from the three suspects.

Pakistan had acknowledged that Faisal Shahzad who pleaded guilty to a New York bomb plot met the commander of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, Hakimullah Mehsud in Pakistan. A video of the meeting was also released by TV channels.

Terror suspects arrested for ties to Faisal Shahzad – The Express Tribune

 

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ISLAMABAD, Sept 8, 2010 (AFP) - Pakistan's police have arrested three suspects linked to a Pakistani-American arrested in New York for the attempted car bombing of Times Square, a senior police official said Wednesday.

The three were detained in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, two weeks ago and were interrogated for several days, police said.

"It has been proved that they had links with Faisal Shehzad (the car-bombing suspect arrested in New York) and had transferred money to him," Bani Amin, operations police chief in Islamabad, told AFP.