RAWALPINDI, May 23: Intelligence agencies and police have started interrogating a man spotted wandering near Jinnah Park during Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali's movement to the Army House on Saturday, an official source told Dawn.

Syed Rehman Shah from Karachi, who was wearing a Police Qaumi Razakar uniform, was acting suspiciously among the policemen during the prime minister's movement. Mr Rehman, who, the police said, seemed 'mentally disturbed' was taken into custody.

When contacted, the SHO Civil Lines confirmed that a man had been taken into custody and was being interrogated by intelligence agencies. He said during questioning, Mr Rehman said he wanted to meet President Gen Pervez Musharraf and inform him that he was the real person who had informed the Gulshan-i-Iqbal police that a large quantity of explosives was being shifted for assassinating the president in August 2003.

It was his information which led the police to track down the vehicle carrying the explosives. He claimed that he was receiving life threats from different organizations for his act, the SHO said. "Rehman had been unemployed since long which disturbed him mentally," Inspector Asghar Gorai said.