New Delhi, April 8 -- Two persons held in connection with grenade attack at former Punjab minister and BJP leader Manoranjan Kalia's residence in Jalandhar, said Punjab Police. The blast at the BJP leader's house was a major conspiracy of Pakistan's ISI, Lawrence Bishnoi, and Pakistani gangster Shahzad Bhatti, Punjab Police added.

According to an ANI report citing official sources, the attack was handiwork of the Pakistan's intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence to spoil religious harmony in the State.

According to the the report, the mastermind of the attack was identified as Zeeshan Akhtar, who is a close associate of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi. The sources said that the attack was a "cross-border planned attack."

Akhtar is a...