Six suspects arrested for alleged links to several major terror attacks in Pakistan were planning to assassinate President Asif Ali Zardari and Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif, a media report claimed on late Wednesday. During interrogation, the suspects told investigators that they were planning to attack Zardari at the Governor House during his upcoming visit to Lahore, an unnamed security official was quoted as saying by the Daily Times newspaper. The suspects said that they had collected explosives to blow up the Governor House to assassinate the president, the official said. The suspects revealed that they wanted to target Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer and chief minister Shahbaz Sharif as well, the official said. Police found a detailed map of the Governor House in Lahore among documents seized from the suspects. Police and other security agencies arrested the six suspects in the wake of the suicide attack on the Data Darbar Sufi shrine in Lahore last week that killed 45 people.
