Suicide jacket defused in Islamabad

ISLAMABAD: Law enforcers foiled a possible terrorist attack on Sunday when they defused a suicide jacket found in Sarai Kharbuza area of the federal capital.

Sources said that police at the Tarnol station acted when they received information of the presence of a suicide jacket near a nullah in Sarai Kharbuza area.

A police contingent along with members of the bomb disposal squad immediately reached the area and defused the explosive-laden jacket.

Security has already been put on high alert in the federal capital on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Defence Day of Pakistan.