Arrested for assassination

Pakistan has arrested two people in connection with last year’s assassination of a former Afghan president who was trying to broker peace with the Taleban.

Officials said that the two were detained in the Pakistani city of Quetta, the alleged base of the Taleban insurgency.

Relations with Pakistan soured after the assassination of Burhanuddin Rabbani, Afghanistan’s former president and head of the government-appointed peace council. Mr Rabbani was killed 20 September last year in his home in Kabul by a suicide bomber posing as an emissary from the Taliban.

A commission appointed by Afghan president Hamid Karzai to investigate Mr Rabbani’s death concluded that the attack was planned in Quetta and that the primary assailant was Pakistani.