KABUL: Afghan authorities said yesterday they have arrested five Taliban insurgents who were planning suicide attacks on civilians in the capital Kabul and another city later this month.
Police arrested the four men and one woman in the eastern city of Jalalabad Thursday and seized four suicide bomb vests and C-4 explosives along with other weapons, the interior ministry said.
“They were trained outside Afghanistan’s borders and have confessed their crime,” ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi told a news conference.
Living cost shoots up in Islamabad
LAHORE: The cost of living has gone beyond the means of not only the poor but the middle class as well during last five years in Pakistan, market surveys reveal.
The prices of all essential products, including food, transport, housing, health or education have reportedly increased.
The prices of vegetables, pulses, spices, edible oil, and sugar showed constant hikes. Atta (wheat flour), the staple food of the country, registered a phenomenal increase from Rs18 per kg in 2007-08 to Rs35 per kg now.
Meat and beef have been already out of reach of lower middle class families, while exorbitant increase in prices of vegetables and pulses forced many of them to even reduce their caloric intake.
Food is not the only necessity of life, said Salman Karim, a semi-skilled worker earning Rs10,000 per month in a garment factory. He said shelter is the first priority of poor families.
One million children unvaccinated
ISLAMABAD: Over 1.3 million children in the country missed polio vaccination owing to the worsening law, order and security situation during a three-day national polio immunisation campaign which commenced on April 15 with the goal of targeting 33.5 million children under five years of age.
Prime Minister?s Polio Monitoring and Coordination Cell noted that some districts had a large population of unvaccinated children under the age of five, who should be administered the vaccine during the first polio campaign of 2013.
Agencies
