Press: Plot to blow up Czech and other embassies in Islamabad foiled

A plot to blow up a number of foreign embassies in Islamabad, including the city’s Czech embassy, was foiled by Pakistani police, the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet reported on Wednesday. Sweden’s foreign ministry confirmed the arrest last week of a man armed with two tonnes of explosives and suspected of planning to bomb its embassy and those of five other countries. A Czech ambassador to Pakistan, Ivo Ždárek, was killed when terrorists blew up the Marriot Hotel in Islamabad in September.

Author: Ian Willoughby