Authorities have arrested five suspects in connection with a weekend rocket attack on international peacekeepers in the Afghan capital of Kabul, a senior official said on Wednesday. The five men are all residents of a neighbourhood of eastern Kabul where police on Sunday discovered four Chinese-made rockets aimed at peacekeepers at the same site used to launch two missiles earlier that day, Gen Din Muhammad Jurat, the director general for security at the interior ministry, told the Associated Press.
No one was injured in the weekend attack on a compound housing the peacekeepers. But peacekeepers said that they believed it was part of a campaign to damage the interim Afghan administration of Hamid Karzai ahead of the Loya Jirga, a grand council that meets in June to select a new government.
Jurat said that the five suspects are being questioned but did not offer details about who they are or for whom they may have been working.
Also on Wednesday, Jurat met with the Italian ambassador, the aviation and tourism minister, the deputy director of the international peacekeeping force and several Italian generals to discuss security arrangements for the return of the exiled King, Mohammad Zaher Shah.

The 87-year-old former monarch, who lives in Rome, is expected to return later this month to convoke the Loya Jirga in June. He had been expected to return earlier, but his arrival has been delayed by security concerns.
Jurat did not give an exact date for the King's arrival, but said that it would be between 10 and 20 days.
Bureau Report