Pakistan police said Friday they were holding the alleged mastermind of the terrorist attack on the World Food Program (WFP) offices in Islamabad and Rescue 15 of the police. “Five blasts took place in Islamabad in 2009, four of them have been investigated and he is involved in all four of those blasts,” Islamabad police chief Kalim Imam told a press conference. He said that the arrested militant, Jamshaid alias Tahir, belonged to the Mulla Rahim Group and Ghazi Force of Orakzai Agency of the tribal areas. He said that the terrorist also fought in Swat against the security forces. Police paraded the man before a battery of cameras. He had a shaved head and black beard, and was wearing a traditional brown shalwar kamiz. Police seized suicide jackets, about eight kilograms (18 pounds) of explosives and ball bearings used to make bombs in his possession. Four Pakistani soldiers killed Four Pakistani soldiers were killed when militants stormed a security post in a troubled tribal region bordering Afghanistan, officials said Friday. Armed with heavy weapons and rockets, militants launched the attack on a post in Chinar town in the Bajaur tribal region, local administration chief Ghulam Saeed Khan said.“Four soldiers were killed and three wounded,” Khan said adding that troops retaliated killing six attackers. Three policmen killed A bomb packed with steel pellets tore through a Pakistani police vehicle on the outskirts of the northwestern city of Peshawar early Friday, killing three policemen, officials said. US missile strike kills 8 rebels A suspected US missile strike killed at least eight militants Friday in northwestern Pakistan. A US drone fired two missiles at a compound being used by suspected Taliban militants in a village near Mir Ali in North Waziristan, according to two intelligence officials. The compound was destroyed and eight bodies were pulled from the rubble
