Pakistan Cabinet Submits Resignation, Would-be Suicide Bomber Arrested

Pakistan's ministers on Wednesday submitted their resignations to the prime minister, who intends to dissolve the cabinet and appoint a smaller version to tackle economic problems, an official said.

"Today's meeting is going to be the last meeting of the present cabinet," Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told the cabinet.

A senior government official told Agence France Presse that the ministers had tendered their resignations to Gilani during the meeting.

"Now the prime minister will forward these resignations to the president for acceptance," the official told AFP, on condition of anonymity.

"The cabinet usually stands dissolved after the president accepts the resignations forwarded to him by the prime minister," he added.

Meanwhile, Pakistan arrested a woman allegedly planning to blow herself up in a lawless tribal region where 43 people were killed two months ago in a female suicide attack, officials said.

"Security forces and local administration officials raided a house near Khar on Wednesday morning and arrested a woman wearing a suicide vest," senior local official Sohail Khan told AFP.

He said the raid was ordered on a tip off that women were being trained as suicide bombers in the residential area of Siddiqabad near Khar, the main town of Bajaur tribal district.(AFP-Naharnet)