Afghan arrested for alleged involvement in courtroom blast

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani police have arrested an Afghan suspected to be involved in a suicide attack in a Quetta courtroom that killed 16 people.

The suspect, who was arrested in Chaman, warned of more suicide attacks, said Qazi Abdul Wahid, Superintendent of Quetta Police, on Saturday.

"He told us that there are more suicide bombers in the city who can carry out attacks," Wahid said.

Wahid said that 200 plainclothes policemen were deployed in different parts of Quetta to keep a strict vigil on movements of suspected terrorists and criminals in the wake of the courtroom attack, the Dawn reported.

On February 17, 16 people, including a judge, were killed and 24 others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a courtroom in Quetta in restive Balochistan province.