Attempt to blow up CM offices in NWFP foiled

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Islamabad, Dec 6 (UNI) Hours after recovery of explosive materials outside his office yesterday, Chief Minister of Pakistan's Northwestern Frontier Province (NWFP) Mohammad Akram Khan Durrani accused a federal intelligence agency of planting these explosives.

''The accused will be apprehended and interrogated to expose what might be a conspiracy to destabilise my government,'' Dawn newspaper quoted Durrani as saying in Islamabad.

The incident came to light at the backdrop of growing tension between the centre and the six-party Islamic alliance Mutahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) over the latter's opposition of the Protection of Women Bill and its repeated announcements that the alliance members will resign from the National Assembly in protest against approval of an un-Islamic bill.

The bill repealed the controversial Hudood ordinance, which was being seen as highly discriminatory against women. But MMA believed that the ordinance was in line with the Quranic injunctions and therefore must not be touched.

''An FIR has been registered against the suspect, who had been nabbed red-handed while planting the explosive'', said Durrani, whose MMA rules the province but occupies opposition benches in the federal legislature.

The Chief Minister said the accused had been nabbed by police officials guarding his office and handed over to the police station with the explosive material which he had planted.

But Joint Director-General of the intelligence bureau (IB) Zafarullah Khan went to the police station, got the accused released and the bomb removed, he said.

The local IB offices were raided by the Peshawar police but they were not given access to the accused nor was the explosive material returned, the Chief Minister said.

He said it was an offence against a province, apparently directed by someone in the centre in order to destabilise his government ahead of the elections.

Mr Durrani said he expected Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz to contact him after the incident since the IB was working directly under the premier.

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