Police in Pakistan said today they had arrested three Islamic guerrillas who were planning to kill American diplomats in Karachi.
Mr Syed Kamal Shah, police chief of the southern province of Sindh, said police had also seized a Volkswagen vehicle packed with 10 kilogram of explosives the guerrillas had intended to use to attack the diplomats in the southern port city.
"We have arrested three militants who were planning to target American diplomats," he told a news conference. "They have confessed to this plan."
The three were members of the extremist Muslim Harkat-e-Jihad movement and had received training in neighbouring Afghanistan, he said.