GUJRAT, April 7: Law enforcers have picked up three Afghans for their suspected role in a suicide attack near Gulliana in Kharian that had left two soldiers dead and seven others injured some days back.

Hakim Khan and Imran Khan, apparently cloth traders, were picked up from the main bazaar of Kotla Arab Ali Khan. Both of them were carrying National Identity Cards which they had obtained from the Chakwal office. The third Afghan was taken into custody from a plaza in Kharian.

Sources said that officials of an intelligence agency were interrogating them at an undisclosed place.

They gave out that the three Afghans were picked up after an inquiry team had collected information about a fiber factory at Khatar in Abbottabad where some 5,000 people of Kotla Arab Ali Khan, Bhand Garan and its adjoining villages were employed.

The inquiry disclosed that a wagon that brought employees from the factory to their homes every day also passed through the blast site. Further investigation revealed that the wagon’s passing and the blast time was almost the same.

The government had constituted an inquiry team which was headed by Major Khurshid, sources said.