Pakistan: 7 arrested in connection with attacks on court, Christian colony

Army spokesman Lt. Gen. Asim Saleem Bajwa said Tuesday the army had broken the militant network responsible for the Sept. 2 attacks. He says the attacks were planned from Afghanistan, and that Pakistan has informed Kabul. Bajwa does not disclose the identity of the detained men, but a breakaway Taliban faction has said it carried out the attacks.

On Sept. 2, one civilian was killed when four gunmen stormed a Christian colony near the city of Peshawar and 12 people died when a suicide bomber struck a court in the town of Mardan in the northwest.