In Pakistan, intelligence agencies have uncovered a plot to assassinate President Asif Ali Zardari. TV news channels report, several persons have been arrested in this connection. The agencies conducted raids over the past few weeks in Islamabad and Punjab and arrested up to 42 persons. GEO News channel quoted its sources as saying that 42 people had been arrested while Express News Channel reported that eight have been arrested. The reports said, the plotters had planned to target Mr. Zardari during his visit to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, where his father Hakim Ali Zardari was being treated till his recent death. There were also reports that the plotters had planned to target Mr Zardari at Nawab Shah in Sindh province. However, there was no official word on the alleged assassination plot.