ISLAMABAD: The capital police announced on Friday that it had captured a suspect involved in a suicide attack at a UN office last month and a string of other bomb blasts.

‘Five blasts took place in Islamabad in 2009, four of them have been investigated and he is involved in the four blasts,’ Islamabad police chief Kalim Imam told a press conference.

Police paraded the suspect, Jamshed alias Tahir, before journalists. Mr Imam said the suspect aided in  the acts of suicide attack on the World Food Programme office in Islamabad in which five UN workers were killed.

He brought the bomber to the World Food Programme (office), Mr Imam said.

Police found suicide jackets, about eight kilograms of explosives and ball bearings used to make bombs in his possession.

Mr Imam said that the man was a key activist of ‘Ghazi Force’ formed and operated by Maula Niaz Raheem, a former student of Lal Masjid.

According to police, Ghazi Force was formed to carry out ‘reprisal or revenge activities’ for the 2007 operation against Lal Masjid.

Mr Imam said the suspect had admitted before a magistrate that he was the mastermind of suicide bombings in Swat and Islamabad, including the attack on Rescue-15 police office.

Police said Jamshed was arrested from Rawal Lake area where he was waiting for his accomplices coming from Orakzai Agency.

He said Jamshed monitored activities around the WFP office for three days before providing FC uniform and suicide jacket to the bomber. The Ghazi force provided four suicide jackets to Jamshed for an attack on Adyala Jail where several terrorists are detained.—Agencie