Rescue workers survey the area near a damaged vehicle at the site of a car-bomb attack in Faisalabad on March 8, 2011.—Reuters

ISLAMABAD: Security agencies on Monday arrested the mastermind and two of his accomplices involved in the Faisalabad suicide attack from Islamabad.

Officials of the security agencies told DawnNews that the target of the attack was the ISI office and the planning was done the tribal region.

The arrested mastermind Usman Ghani alias Abdul Jabbar was the key planner of the attack, officials added.

Sources said that he got his training from Afghanistan in 2007 and in 2009 he moved to North Waziristan where he joined the Qari Imran group. Later, he was assigned the task to bomb the ISI office in Faisalabad.

With the help of his accomplices Khalid Habib, Asif, Tipu and Qari Imran, Ghani planned the attack. The security agencies were trying to nab the other culprits involved in the attack.

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